Case Study: Chapel Hill Transit achieves $200,000 in annual savings with Trapeze FX/BlockBuster

Chapel Hill Transit - Customer Case Study

Chapel Hill Transit (CHT), a municipal transit agency serving Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and the University of North Carolina community, struggled with a manual fixed-route scheduling process. Before working with Trapeze Group, schedulers needed three to four weeks to build a streetable runcut, and any operator feedback often meant starting over, creating a slow, tedious, and costly workflow.

Trapeze Group implemented FX/BlockBuster, its routing and scheduling system for fixed-route transit, to automate runcutting and reduce errors. The solution cut runcut creation time from weeks to just two to three days, reduced weekly driver payroll by nearly 200 hours, and delivered about $200,000 in annual savings through more efficient run assignments and tighter schedules.

Chapel Hill Transit

Nick Pittman

Transit Planning Coordinator