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Driving the rest of the non-schoolchildren population around? The driver, which instead gets an - at least in europe - somewhat awkward job, having to work two
by fifticon 2y ago
Driving the rest of the non-schoolchildren population around?
The driver, which instead gets an - at least in europe - somewhat awkward job, having to work two tiny shifts with a useless break in the middle.
Source: Worked twenty years in public transport resource planning uptimization algorithms, and came to know how dearly the actual bus drivers hated those "work two times a day with a useless unpaid break in the middle".
(Our algorithms would often generate them to e.g. arrive at fewer <something to optimise for>, but our clients would tell us "you can't make that many 2-part shifts, our bus drivers would kill us".
- fomine3 2y agoI think public transportation is most used during commuting hours.
- mapt 2y agoFor the most part, if the system is working, you'd have to pay them a living daily wage regardless of what you're paying them hourly for 4 hours or 8 hours. (Which is such an obvious concern in the US that it's the first thing I thought of) But that doesn't address the inconvenience to their lives. Let's say schools are 7-14, 8-15, and 9-16 for high-middle-elementary. Routes start at 6, and end at 17, which is an 11 hour day with two shifts of 3 hours plus a 5 hour break in the middle.