CrewPLAN
Crew scheduling
Optimise driver duties for efficiency and compliance with the leading AI-powered automatic crew scheduling software
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Efficiently manage crew scheduling
Controlling costs is a key element of any successful business and with driver costs often representing in excess of 40% of the total operational cost, control of this is essential. Creating a crew duty schedule can be complex and produce a large number of potential solutions, even for a small network. Alternatively it may be difficult to create any viable solution, let alone an effective or efficient one. Therefore schedulers need a powerful tool that can cope with a wide range of variables and parameters.
Using advanced algorithms and AI, CrewPLAN is a leading automatic crew scheduling software which will produce a set of drivers’ duties for a network taking account of a wide range of user controlled parameters, allowing many variations in the labour agreement rules. With features to control elements such as route content within duties, and minimising undesirable duty types, it allows the creation of efficient schedules that are also practical in operation.
Linking with our scheduling (OmniBASE) and timetabling (OmniTIMES) solutions, CrewPLAN is not only the ideal tool for producing robust and efficient crew duty schedules for current operations, but is also essential for evaluating those ‘What if?’ questions. What if we changed the labour agreement? What if we moved the relief point? What if we combined all our services into one duty schedule? What would the duty cost of winning this tender be? These are all questions that can be evaluated in a matter of minutes with CrewPLAN, making it an essential planning tool for operators.
Powerful for all types of operation, CrewPLAN demonstrates versatility in scheduling rural operations, intensive urban services and light rail networks.
- Multi level driving limit controls
- Ability to handle complex mealbreak rules for different duty types
- Suppression of undesirable duties
- Route mixture specification within duties
- Flexible objective (e.g. minimise number of duties or cost)
- Efficient passenger travelling for drivers
- Multiple-run feature to refine complex solutions
- Flexible duty types
- Clear on-screen comparison between labour agreements
- Provision for interactive adjustment of crew schedules
- Easy to use and fully integrated with the OmniBASE scheduling module
Building an efficient bus operation
A bus operation is a complex chain comprising numerous links, from network planning to service delivery and operational review, all of which must operate with maximum efficiency.
- For optimal efficiency, every link must harmonise with the others
- The difficulty is that maximising the efficiency of one link can sometimes detrimentally affect another.
This ebook explores the metrics to measure efficiency effectively to build a sustainable and profitable operation.
End-to-end efficiency
Experience and expertise
30+ years
developing leading passenger
transport solutions
- Market leader in driving efficiency for
passenger transport operators of all sizes - Software innovation driven by an in-depth
understanding of the passenger transport industry - Strong track record of quality delivery and
high customer satisfaction
