r/Glasgow Tools

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Author	twoxraydelta
Comment	The way the system works is that the whole schedule is loaded in. Every journey has a unique number. The driver will enter the info and it allows the system to marry up the bus to the schedule to display on the app. As a redundancy measure, if the system can’t find the live journey, it will fallback to displaying the scheduled time. There are a number of reasons why it may not find the live journey; machine failure, poor data signal, or what should be in normal times a rare occurrence - the bus not operating. Any journeys that are cancelled in advance should now be showing “cancelled” on the app like this: https://ibb.co/3mNfswq Post covid, every service has been stripped back due to a reduction of passenger numbers. Eg a service with 6 buses an hour now has 4. While there are less passengers overall, each bus is carrying approx 20% more passengers per journey due to there being less buses. Then with the massive staff shortage those 4 buses an hour might be reduced to 2 or 3. The ones that are running get later and later because they could end up picking up 240% of the passenger numbers that the schedule is designed for. Journeys will only be cancelled as a last resort, usually to comply with drivers hours legislation. When it gets to that point though it’s already too late to update the app. Your bus is due at 17:00 but by the time the decision is taken to cancel the journey the bus has gotten so late it’s now 17:15. It drops off the app or you see it whizzing by not in service so the driver can stay within his legal driving limits.
Reddit Link	https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/y7btao/is_first_bus_giving_up_the_ghost/isx3m0d/
Created	Wed 19th Oct 2022 10:21am
Status	normal ()

The way the system works is that the whole schedule is loaded in. Every journey has a unique number. The driver will enter the info and it allows the system to marry up the bus to the schedule to display on the app.

As a redundancy measure, if the system can’t find the live journey, it will fallback to displaying the scheduled time. There are a number of reasons why it may not find the live journey; machine failure, poor data signal, or what should be in normal times a rare occurrence - the bus not operating.

Any journeys that are cancelled in advance should now be showing “cancelled” on the app like this: https://ibb.co/3mNfswq

Post covid, every service has been stripped back due to a reduction of passenger numbers. Eg a service with 6 buses an hour now has 4.

While there are less passengers overall, each bus is carrying approx 20% more passengers per journey due to there being less buses.

Then with the massive staff shortage those 4 buses an hour might be reduced to 2 or 3. The ones that are running get later and later because they could end up picking up 240% of the passenger numbers that the schedule is designed for.

Journeys will only be cancelled as a last resort, usually to comply with drivers hours legislation.

When it gets to that point though it’s already too late to update the app. Your bus is due at 17:00 but by the time the decision is taken to cancel the journey the bus has gotten so late it’s now 17:15. It drops off the app or you see it whizzing by not in service so the driver can stay within his legal driving limits.