Optibus

RATING:

4.3

(4)
Overview

About Optibus

Optibus is a cloud-based transportation management platform designed to help transit agencies, universities, airports, consultancies, school districts, and shuttle operators with transit planning, scheduling, rostering, and optimization. Optibus offers features that help users with network planning, vehicle and crew scheduling, driver rostering, and real-time operations management. The network planning feature enables users to design transit routes and timetables. The vehicle and crew scheduling feature enables administrators to assign vehicles and drivers to the routes. The driver rostering feature helps organizations create driver schedules and duties. The real-time operations management feature helps track vehicle locations and provides information to riders. Op...

Optibus Pricing

Simple monthly pricing that includes product usage, updates, support, etc.

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

Not Available

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Optibus Reviews

Overall Rating

4.3

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

4.5

Value for money

5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for Optibus

4 Reviews

Karaen

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed May 2017

The system is really simple to use, saves money and takes a few seconds to work

PROS

What used to take days or even weeks to optimize schedule, can now be completed in a few seconds to 1 minute. This enables to prepare different bus schedules as many times as needed - and play with the system - until you get the best route schedule. The algorithms and calculations take into consideration the local regulations for buses and drivers, and provides the best optimal solution - at the lowest cost/resource use. The ROI is almost immediate - sometimes as long as one month! So, bus operators can see savings right from the beginning.

CONS

Looking forward to real-time solution, that is said to be out by the end of 2017. With real-time solution, traffic jams or schedule changes can be taken care of immediately. The "optibus onschedule" only provides a solution for planning bus schedules inn advance.

Ryan

Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed November 2016

Incredible!!!

Planning Manager, Las Vegas Great software! The ease of use, speed and customer support are by far the best I've experienced. Definetly a game changer for the transit industry.

PROS

The speed in which it process complex run cuts

CONS

None

User Profile

Benjamin

Verified reviewer

Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

2

EASE OF USE

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2

FUNCTIONALITY

2

Reviewed June 2021

Very slow gantt and timeplan

Plenty of other software at a cheaper price

PROS

Features are plentiful from optimisation and manual scheduling

CONS

Very slow speed all the time. Always crashes halfway. Takes very long to load. System cannot handle even 20 routes. Timeplan takes very long to adjust

Reasons for switching to Optibus

Lack of report functions. Features are out of date with no new improvements.

Vladimir

Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed November 2016

Scheduling made fast and easy

I've been using Optibus OnSchedule for the last year to create our quarterly operational schedule. The ease of use and speed is nothing like i've seen before, which allows me to test many different alternative during the scheduling process as well as modify the plan due to annual changes.

PROS

Speed Intuitive interface Rich capabilities No local deployment, only browser is needed

CONS

Missing dispatching module