Public-Transport

TL;DR for operators Bus route planning is a familiar kind of organisational pain: every local decision looks defensible until it interacts with the rest of the network. Add one promising segment, and you may improve coverage. Or you may create redundant overlap, force ugly transfers, consume fleet capacity, and make the whole system worse. Charming. ...

A bus operator does not usually suffer from a shortage of charts. It suffers from the more irritating problem: charts that explain themselves only to the person who made them. The fuel-efficiency analyst has a histogram. The data scientist has a clustering plot. The operations manager has a timetable to defend, a fuel bill to reduce, and perhaps a driver-training programme to justify. Somewhere between those roles, insight quietly evaporates into a PDF appendix. ...