Strategy phase

March 14, 2011 by Daniel   Comments (1)

1. Firstly I take a look at the map and decide what route my 4 bus drivers are going to take. If a destination takes a long time to reach my plan is not to group this with many other stops as this will increase the time my journey takes. In this example one of my journy's will only be Aylesbury + Ipswich. If there are a couple of stops bunched together then I will send one bus driver to pick up from all of these stops , for example Reading + Paddington + Lewisham + Kingston. Overall I plan my 3/4 journeys which each of my bus drivers will take.

2. Afterwards I then import my 'Timings' data. At first I fount it difficult to remember the process of incerting it but with practise im sure I will be able to complete this task in the future very quickly.

3. I then enter the information which I have been given for the number of boys and girls at each location. Simple step. Following on I do a simple calculation which adds the boys and girls together from each location, this is then totalled at the bottom.

4. From this step I stay on the same page and enter in the routes which I think will work. Some of these journys may take 2 or 5 steps depending on how many stops the driver has to make.

5. I then go to the Timetable page and make sure that each depart time has an additional time of 5 minutes because that is how long each driver is prepared to wait for the passengers.

Strength's

- Get more stops by doing the the outer circle stops last this allows you to get to crawley on time without having do both inner circle and outer on the same bus.

- There are a lot of short stops in the middle so you know you will be able to get to crawley on time even by putting all of the stops in within the inner circle.

- Overall the strategy does work......however...

Weaknessess

- Strategy can be a bit vague (not exact)

- Sometimes if the numbers of people at each stop are either 1 or 2 then it does become difficult becasue you almost have to go to every stop.

Ryan 423 days ago

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