Flint Hills, Kansas Picks Optibus to Increase Transit Equity and Explore Multiple Scenarios
The Flint Hills Area Transportation Agency is now using Optibus’ Planning, Scheduling, and Rostering products to manage their public transportation operation.
The Flint Hills Area Transportation Agency (ATA Bus) plans, manages, and operates fixed route and demand response service within Manhattan, Kansas and the surrounding Urbanized Area, Riley County, Pottawatomie County, and Geary County. They were seeking a scheduling platform that provided them with key performance indicators (KPIs) and enabled them to create and analyze multiple service scenarios quickly, without requiring schedulers to manually inspect each scenario and guess which scenario is the ideal one.
ATA Bus will use Optibus’ combination of optimization algorithms and artificial intelligence to create blocks and run cuts that combine and optimize both fixed route and demand response services, leading to significant gains in operational and service efficiency. Optibus’ Rapid Scenario Creation tool will allow them to produce and analyze multiple scenarios with the click of a button, and to make data-driven decisions about which scenario best fits their KPIs – no guesswork required. Impact Analysis, part of Optibus’ Geospatial Suite, will enable ATA Bus to analyze how they serve residents who speak English as a second language and to deploy more equitable services.
Anne Smith, Executive Director at ATA Bus, said:Optibus is technologically superior to the competition, especially with regard to their speed and all the KPIs they present once optimizations are complete. Their cloud-native architecture was particularly appealing, because it gives us free access to automatic software upgrades and improvements that competitors would charge us for or withhold until they release a new software version.
This article was originally published by Optibus.
