Case Study: Kavim achieves 150% expansion and reduced operating costs with Optibus

Two Consecutive Tender Wins Lead to a 150% Expansion

Kavim, a private Israeli bus company founded in 2000 with a fleet of about 400 buses, sought major growth and in 2012 bid on two large Ministry of Transportation tenders — the Modiin‑Ramla contract (requiring ~400 buses) and the Hadera–Netanya–Tel Aviv lines (≈250 buses). To prepare competitive, cost‑effective schedules for these new service areas where they had no prior operations, Kavim used the Optibus scheduling solution.

Optibus provided an interactive optimization platform that generated and evaluated multiple schedule alternatives, accounting for depots, parking, vehicle types and bottlenecks while quickly calculating trip times and costs. Using Optibus helped Kavim submit more efficient bids, win both tenders, expand its fleet to over 1,000 buses (a roughly 150% increase) and continue using Optibus for scheduling; an independent study showed idle kilometers fell 22% (3,422 → 2,678), idle trip hours fell 17% (94 → 78) and standby hours fell 22% (239 → 186).

Kavim

Zion Pat

CEO