Case Study: BART improves productivity and train operators’ quality of life with GIRO’s HASTUS-CrewOpt

BART reduces pay-to-platform ratio by 19% with GIRO

BART, a heavy-rail public transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area, faced challenges in efficiently scheduling crews and vehicles during a major infrastructure renewal. Their legacy in-house software involved many manual processes and could not handle the increased demand for new or revised schedules. To modernize their operations, BART adopted the HASTUS-CrewOpt solution from vendor GIRO.

GIRO's CrewOpt solution allowed BART's schedulers to build valid crew rosters in under an hour, enabling them to evaluate multiple scenarios. The implementation resulted in a 19% reduction in the pay-to-platform ratio and a 24% decrease in rosters with more than a two-hour day-to-day start time variation. This provided a win-win solution, significantly improving productivity and enhancing the quality of life for BART's train operators.

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