Duisburg gets on board with MICROBUS (PR)

"By introducing the MICROBUS vehicle and duty scheduling system, we hope to work together better with public transport companies in the neighbouring cities of Mülheim, Oberhausen and Essen. We want to coordinate planning work with our partners and thereby reduce the cost of preparing our timetable and duty schedules. Optimising processes with MICROBUS will help lower our operating costs even further," says Rolf Krußmann, head of the planning department at Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft.

The public transport companies of the cities of Duisburg, Oberhausen, Essen and Mülheim all operate vehicles in the networks of the neighbouring towns. Over the long term, they hope to simplify planning by sharing a common database. MICROBUS supports the optimisation of transport services throughout the network of meo-partners and Duisburg. The goal of this cooperative effort is to bring the public transport companies in line with the competition and streamline public transport services, while simultaneously cutting costs for the cities.

Although all companies currently use their own databases, they will combine them into a standard database at a later date. They plan to gradually standardize all data conventions and integrate the databases.

The public transport companies of Duisburg, which has a population of 580,000, currently use 60 light rail trains and 180 busses to transport over 54 million passengers a year.

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IVU Traffic Technologies AG is a leading supplier of IT systems for planning, operating and optimising transport and logistics processes. Over 25 years of experience developing hardware and software systems for more than 300 public transport companies has also made IVU the market leader for IT solutions in other segments: monitoring truck fleets, setting up retail networks in geo-marketing, election processing. This is IVU's approach to transportation and beyond.

MICROBUS supports and optimises timetable, vehicle and duty scheduling in public transport companies, efficiently generating information for passengers, drivers and management. The system also carries out daily operations scheduling and accounting processes for drivers and vehicles, transferring the data to payroll accounting. MICROBUS is used by municipal and regional public transport companies as well as railway, commuter train and light rail operators. Equipped with an integrated universal database (company database), the system helps save money. MICROBUS is already being used in 15 countries and is available in different local languages.