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This question is being asked more and more frequently by cash-strapped city councils, congested health systems, and budget-conscious city managers. In many jurisdictions, the new fiscal realities mean that this…

Crew scheduling is a challenging and poorly-understood aspect of planning. Larger services attempt to match scheduled vehicle levels to average call levels as they change throughout the day. What makes…

One of the oft-cited reasons to delay (or avoid) moving to an evidence-based culture is lack of trust in data quality. The data is riddled with errors, biased, and inaccurate.…

“Flexibility is important, but it has to do with the mindset that people have. There’s a mindset where analytics is telling me what the right answer is, and then there’s…

Traditionally, station location models have relied on the concept of “coverage” to determine the best locations. The main drawback to these models is the binary nature of “coverage”, where demand…

Do the busiest times hurt performance the most? Conventional wisdom suggests that performance suffers the most when the system is strained. As unit availability decreases, fractile response is justifiably lower:…