Network Planning & Capacity Optimisation Services
Smarter Transportation Planning.
Save 15 - 30% While Improving Service
The Challenge
Manual Planning Can’t Handle the Complexity
Every summer, transport teams spend weeks plotting routes on Google Maps, trying to balance thousands of addresses, buses, and variables by hand. For 1,000 students and 50 buses, that’s a logistical puzzle that’s nearly impossible to solve manually.
Manual planning often results in:
- 10 – 20% more buses on the road than needed
- Hundreds of thousands of euros wasted annually
- Long, inefficient routes
- No clear visibility on new enrolment feasibility
- Weeks lost redrawing routes
Efficient transportation services start with smarter route planning.
Services That Transform Your Operations
Perfect Your Existing Routes
What It Does
Take any existing route and rebuild it from the ground up for maximum efficiency.
Key Capabilities
- Merge stops that are too close together
- Optimise stop sequencing to eliminate backtracking
- Snap stops to the actual road facilitating realistic drive times
- Calculate precise arrival times accounting for real traffic patterns
Impact
Routes typically shorten by 10 – 20% while maintaining or improving service. For a fleet of 30 buses, this can remove entire routes and reduce total travel time.
Build Your Optimal Transport System
What It Does
Design your entire transport network from first principles, optimising all routes at once. We work directly with your team to review proposed routes, integrate local knowledge (staff locations, family connections, community details), and test multiple operational scenarios.
Key Capabilities
- Analyse every student location as part of a unified system
- Balance goals: minimise buses, reduce costs, meet ride-time limits
- Factor in constraints: capacity, time windows, speed limits, vehicle size limits
- Compare new plans against current networks
Impact
Schools typically achieve a 10% or greater fleet reduction, better utilisation, reduced ridership times and significant cost savings.
Make Smart Enrolment Decisions in Real Time
The Enrolment Challenge
When a new family applies, schools need immediate answers: whether the address can be served, if an additional bus will be required, and whether there is available space nearby.
What It Does
- Instantly check capacity by address
- View your entire network with live capacity indicators
- Test “what-if” enrolment scenarios
- Spot underused routes ready for new students
Key Benefits:
- Avoid unnecessary bus additions
- Target marketing where routes exist
- Make confident enrolment decisions
- Forecast transport costs accurately
Why It Matters for International Schools
Transport is essential. Families rely on it, and unreliable service can limit enrolment. Schools face dispersed families, multiple campuses, and unpredictable traffic, making manual planning impossible, but optimisation creates huge savings.
Frequently Asked Questions
Even well-managed systems often have 15 – 20% untapped potential. Manual planning can’t test thousands of route combinations or reveal hidden inefficiencies.
Software alone isn’t enough. Real optimisation needs expertise, balancing objectives, constraints, and school-specific nuances. We bring the technology and the experience.
That’s why we include the Capacity Planner. It helps you adjust quickly as new families enrol or routes shift.
We’ll help you prepare it. Typically, we need student addresses, existing routes, bus capacities, school times, and constraints.
Take the Next Step
Stop guessing and start optimising
Together School has supported international schools worldwide for nearly a decade. We understand your challenges, and we know how to turn transport from a cost centre into a strategic advantage.
