Rebirth 79: I opened a bank in the United States

Chapter 402 Unsuccessful Bus Service Negotiation

I thought that the work of the council responsible for campus activities would be a very easy job.It's like the sports department in the domestic university student union, except for the sports meeting where people can be seen, God knows what they are doing? !

But in fact, it was completely opposite to what Carter expected.

There is not only a lot of work in this direction, but it is also very messy.At the first regular meeting of the council, Carter, and the junior sister named Melinda Custer who was in charge of familiarizing him with the matters of the council, received their first assignment from the duo:
In response to the deteriorating law and order environment in New Haven, to ensure the safety of Yale teachers and students.The council hopes to increase the coverage of bus routes near the campus, reducing the need to walk.Especially in the periphery of the campus where the Yale campus police rarely touch, it is necessary to cover a large area of ​​bus lines.Avoid students walking here, which may cause vicious incidents that may be killed.

After the task is assigned to the duo, what to do is the duo's own business.
With the authorization of the council, Carter followed Melinda to Dwight Hall on the first day.As Yale's largest social service organization and volunteer service supply organization, they can be described as Yale's all-round black.

"Most of our work requires the cooperation of volunteers, and you can find and recruit volunteers!"

The two knocked on the door of Dwight Hall as Melinda introduced Carter to the workflow of the Yale Board of Governors.And commissioned a task for the organization to gather feedback on when and how often Yale students need to go to the off-campus area.

While waiting for the results, that is, the next day, the two found Yale's campus police station again.Collect information about the patrol range of the campus police, in order to combine the students' movement trajectories, judge their loopholes, or call the window time and place where vicious incidents are prone to occur.

These tasks continued until Tuesday night, and on Wednesday, the two of Carter were able to communicate with the New Haven bus company with more detailed data.
"Ms. Custer, it is not easy to dispatch more buses to Yale, and we need to account for the increased costs."

The manager of the bus company was in the office, looking at the Carter duo, with a smile on his face and kicking a ball in his mouth:

"You have brought a demand form, but you have not assessed the risks. Maybe this year's Yale student activities are generally like this, and next year will change again. Our bus routes will not be easily changed. This is a fundamental Sexual conflicts. So if we want to increase the bus coverage in the corresponding time period and area, what we need to consider is to increase the deployment of bus vehicles at all times. This cost loss is not small.”

"I understand, Mr. Troud. So our idea is, can you please add some special buses that can be dynamically adjusted for Yale? Since it is a special special line, the timetable changes can be traced. We Yale has more than [-] undergraduates and more than [-] graduate students, plus teachers, professors, and staff, this is a large market group of no less than [-] people."

Melinda has obviously been through battles for a long time, so she directly used Yale's market size to seduce the manager of the bus company, Traud:

"Any product will change according to the needs of its consumers, not to mention public transportation services. The operating time is more in line with market demand. For the public transportation company, its profit increment is also considerable! We can provide you with How about updating Yale's transit demand schedule to help you better plan your routes. You make money and we get convenience?"

"No, no, no, Ms. Custer, that's not the way to look at it. First of all, I don't deny that Yale is a big market, but we are the New Haven bus company. We are not a campus bus company. We also need to serve citizens. Let me show you a set of data."

Instructing his subordinates to take a copy of the company's road map, Traud spread it on the desk and showed it to Carter and Melinda:
"We now have a total of 138 buses, of which 74 are operating in the Branford area! More than half of the total number of buses in operation in our company, it can be seen that we are not indifferent to the Yale market. If it is true I don't care about Yale's needs, and I won't receive you as soon as I hear your visit, will I?"

After a brief explanation, Traud continued:
"These 74 buses will serve five lines in the Branford area. They will more or less pass through Yale, which is also the most reasonable line setting in our opinion. For example, in the main areas of Yale such as Church Street, Crown Street, and York Street. , with greater coverage; but in places such as nursing schools, slightly less.”

"On the one hand, this is because of the limited number of teachers and students in these areas, and on the other hand, it is also because of the limited number of our buses. You must know that assuming that the interval between the bus trips is 15 minutes, it takes 60 minutes for the whole bus line to jump. , the operating vehicles to be put into operation are not 4, but 8!"

"Each of these five lines will pass through the center of New Haven, and three of them will go to West Haven, because many of your activities will be held there, and we have also made a compromise. Faced with these long lines For the line, we used the method of increasing the interval between shifts, which barely achieved complete operation. Now you want to increase the frequency of a certain period of time, which is very difficult for us.”

"This means that we need to deploy more vehicles from other routes. In this way, our entire route planning has to be overturned and redone. This is not a small problem. If we have a majority of idle vehicles, then I naturally Willing to add the Yale line you mentioned Ms. Custer, but the problem now is, no! Not a single idle bus, not even a relatively idle bus!"

"A few years ago, you may not know the municipal situation of New Haven in the past ten or so years. At that time, a large number of people were leaving, either to settle in New York, or to Boston in the north, or even to Rhode Island. Both! Of course, now. I don’t know if you have been out of campus at night? You will find that when you go to downtown New Haven, all the shops will be closed at night. In this environment, how dare we increase our purchasing power What about more vehicles?"

"Even now, the outflow of citizens has eased. But it has not been eradicated. It is still not a livable city. The citizens' willingness to settle has not been strong. We dare not increase the number of buses. We can only With the existing one hundred or so cars, we can barely maintain the operation. This is not only what I mean, but also the attitude of our board of directors. At least we can’t buy more when the residents’ willingness to settle in New Haven has not improved significantly. Of course, there are no more vehicles to match your plan!"

"I hope you understand!"

(End of this chapter)