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Follow on Google News | New scheduling systems for U.S. transportationGOAL SYSTEMS will participate at APTA 2015 Annual Meeting to present their scheduling and planning solutions
By: GOAL SYSTEMS New York has 5,777 buses for more than 22 million people, and Los Angeles has only 2,400 public buses for 20 million people, while cities with 3.5 million people like Paris have a fleet of 4,400 buses, and other cities like Bogotá, having a similar level in population as Los Angeles, manage fleets larger than 14,000 buses. The technology market for public transportation in Northern America (Canada and United States) reaches 2.25 billion US$. For a long time, investment in public transportation, mainly federal, has been scarce while the quality and quantity of service has depended on the efforts of local authorities. The Bus Market in the United States has a volume of 870,000 buses, 500,000 of which are used for school transportation. The 100 biggest organizations have a fleet of only 63,000 buses. The US Railway market is very different from the European one. 90% of railway traffic is focused on rail freight transportation, the transportation of passengers utilizing infrastructure for freight transportation. Amtrak, responsible for almost all the operations of passenger trains in the United States, was created in 1971. Since then, only a few local companies remain: The Rio Grande, Southern (Washington, DC-New Orleans), Southern Crescent and Rock Island, with two interstate trains in Illinois. However, the rail freight transportation is a highly competitive sector, which transported 40% of all United States’ freight in 2011. American railways move 1,471,736 railcars and 31,875 engine locomotives, and have 215,985 employees, according to APTA’s annual study “Public Transportation Fact Books”, the most complete source of information about the sector. Improvements of the current scheduling systems Within this context, Goal Systems can contribute with our vast worldwide experience and knowledge, to improve and optimize US transportation systems. We are a Multinational leader in optimization using integrated scheduling as being the next step in the evolution of the tools for this market. Goal Systems are flexible and highly configurable as will be illustrated at booth 611 at APTA 2015 Annual Meeting from 4-7th of October. End
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