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Improving Driver Schedules at NICE Bus

Senior Transit Planner and Scheduler Hope Ann Smith shares how to create work schedules that bus drivers want.

Sunday, January 21, 2024

Creating better work schedules for bus drivers can improve driver satisfaction, recruitment, and retention. In this interview, Senior Transit Planner and Scheduler Hope Ann Smith of NICE Bus, a Transdev operation in New York, shares her tips about how transit operators can create better bus driver schedules and how she uses Optibus Scheduling to account for layover time, interlining, platform time, and more.

To learn more about how Hope and NICE Bus use Optibus to create better driver schedules, read the full case study here.

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