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INIT gains another customer in the US

Germany-headquartered INIT has announced the signing of a contract with California’s Gold Coast Transit (GCT) to provide an advanced scheduling solution (Mobile-Plan) for its fixed-route fleet. The software solution is already in operation in numerous projects around the world and will assist GCT in realising a more efficient schedule planning and resources allocation.
April 25, 2012 Read time: 1 min
RSSGermany-headquartered 511 INIT has announced the signing of a contract with California’s Gold Coast Transit (GCT) to provide an advanced scheduling solution (Mobile-Plan) for its fixed-route fleet. The software solution is already in operation in numerous projects around the world and will assist GCT in realising a more efficient schedule planning and resources allocation.

The contract calls for twelve workstation licenses and a 1691 Google Transit Export feature as well as a rostering, bidding and timekeeping software, (Perdis) which will assist GCT to efficiently schedule and manage its 100+ drivers.

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