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eBus Software

eBus is a Microsoft Excel based application designed to help you prepare optimized vehicle and crew schedules and weekly rosters quickly and accurately, by automating all the meticulous and tedious tasks such as seeking data from Google Maps, allocating and optimizing resources and charting results.

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eBus has been developed and used over a number of years, incorporating extensive bus operations, scheduling and software development expertise.

What eBus does...

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  • Prepares daily bus workings (aka vehicle allocations) in both list and chart format.

  • Prepares daily crew duties in both list and chart format.

  • Calculates daily and annual peak vehicle requirements (PVR), hours and kilometers by route and bus type.

  • Prepares crew duty cards.

  • Prepares weekly rosters.

  • Exports duty details and weekly rosters for uploading into your roster administration system.

What eBus doesn't do...

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  • Roster administration and timesheets.

Features

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  • Prepares daily bus workings including shuttle vans for crew relocations, optimized to minimize the number of vehicles used and kilometers run, and taking into account different bus sizes and fuel types.

  • Prepares daily crew duties including all book-on, book-off and dead running, optimized to minimize cost, and taking into account drivers hours regulations and employment agreement conditions.

  • Fast and accurate.

  • Data is stored in Excel spreadsheets, which users can easily upload, view, amend and download.

  • Bus workings and crew duties can be viewed graphically.

  • Bus workings and crew duties can be amended graphically using “click, drag and drop”.

  • Bus workings and crew duties are optimized using unit costs.

  • Excellent for doing “what-if” analysis and analyzing proposed changes to timetables.

  • Easy to vary for different days of the week.

  • Can easily cost and create bus workings and crew duties for holiday timetables, major events and rail replacement work.

  • Accommodates different sizes of vehicles, electric and diesel vehicles.

  • Incorporates rest breaks requirements.

  • Uses automated links to Google Maps to obtain accurate dead running distances and times.

  • Any overlapping trips and missing data are highlighted.

  • Timetables in various formats can be uploaded automatically.

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Feature
Lite
Full
Auto load timetables
Obtain accurate distances and times from Google Maps
Build optimized daily bus workings (bus boards, vehicle allocations)
Build optimized daily crew duties
Schedule for different bus sizes
Schedule crew shuttles
Chart daily bus workings and crew duties
Create duty cards
Build weekly or fortnightly rosters
Calculate peak vehicle numbers, hours and kilometers
Export duty details and weekly rosters
Print reports
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eBus Lite version

Free

eBus Full version

USD1000 per month

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