How Oslobuss Cut Planning Time by More Than 50% - While Making Better Use of Its Fleet

Oslobuss operates up to 200 coach trips a day. Planning vehicles across fixed contracts, advance bookings and last-minute requests used to require a highly manual process - and with hundreds of trips to consider, even experienced planners could not easily identify every efficient combination.

With Ferdia CoPlanner, that has changed.

CoPlanner analyses trips across the operation and identifies how vehicles can be used more efficiently between jobs. By considering where vehicles are, where they need to go next and the cost of different alternatives, it can find combinations that would be difficult and time-consuming to identify manually.

The result is more than a 50% reduction in planning time, combined with better utilisation of the existing fleet.

Better trip combinations can reduce unnecessary empty mileage and avoid sending additional vehicles from the depot when a vehicle already on the road can cover the work. That means fewer unnecessary kilometres, better fleet utilisation and lower operating costs.

Oslobuss also gets a clear view of available capacity across the coming days and weeks, helping the team respond faster to customer enquiries and identify opportunities to take on additional work.

And the time saved on planning can be spent where people create greater value: serving customers, managing exceptions and winning more business.

“CoPlanner has cut the time we spend on planning by more than 50%, while helping us get more from the vehicles we already have. We reduce unnecessary driving, use our fleet more efficiently and free up time and capacity to take on more business. Ultimately, it helps us turn better planning into better commercial performance”, says Filip Eijerstam Iversen, Operations Manager, Oslobuss

More than 50% less planning time. Better fleet utilisation. Fewer unnecessary kilometres. More time for customers and growth.