County bus system adds fixed routes

Every day, the vans local residents rely on for public transportation were crossing each other’s paths, making the same stops and wasting fuel.

Employees at Access Johnson County noticed the pattern when they tracked each and every route driven in a day. The employees saw that the vans were driving by the same stops over and over again, wasting time and money by not picking up multiple people at once.

The solution was simple: Instead of picking up individual riders, the organization scheduled fixed routes, where vans would go to all the stops where the most passengers were picked up multiple times per day.

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