Case Study: Marin Transit streamlines data management and ramps up quickly with Optibus

How Marin Transit Uses Optibus to Manage Its Data and Ramp Up Fast

Marin Transit, a small-to-midsize agency serving Marin County with 65 fixed‑route vehicles and nine depots, faced limited in‑house scheduling expertise (only one experienced scheduler), no IT resources, multiple private operators and fragmented data across systems. The agency needed an easy‑to‑use, quick‑to‑deploy solution to enable team onboarding, improve collaboration with contractors, and consolidate data exports—so it adopted the Optibus cloud‑native SaaS planning and scheduling platform.

Optibus loaded Marin Transit’s data within a month and provided a web‑based planning module (timetable and map views), single‑click exports and file sharing with contractors, eliminating on‑prem installation and versioning issues. The intuitive interface let staff ramp up quickly and collaborate securely, consolidated all export formats into one place, improved blocking and analytics (revenue time, blocks, pull‑outs/pull‑ins) and helped Marin spot pull‑out efficiencies that reduced spare equipment needs, deadhead miles and fuel costs.

Marin Transit

Robert Betts

Director of Planning and Operations