Index
Intro
Transportation route and crew schedulers prepare operational and crew schedules for transportation equipment and operating personnel. They are employed by municipal transit commissions, truck, delivery and courier companies, railways, airlines and by other transportation establishments in both the private and public sectors.
Mobility between occupations in this group is limited due to the requirement of specific transportation sector experience.
Progression to supervisory positions is possible with experience.
Main Duties
Transportation route and crew schedulers perform some or all of the following duties:
- Review schedule requisitions, passenger counts and cargo, running times, distances, personnel availability and other pertinent information to establish schedule parameters
- Design new or modify existing schedules using computer software or other methods
- Incorporate into route plan factors such as peak travel periods, holidays, special events and construction with emphasis on time and cost efficiency
- Assign personnel to equipment and routes and schedule work shifts
- Compile equipment and personnel records, including hours in service, distances, maintenance, repairs required and other data, to produce operating reports
- May prepare user guides and other public service information.
Employment Requirements
- Completion of secondary school is required.
- Several years of experience in an appropriate transportation sector are usually required.
- On-the-job training may be provided.
All Titles
- Air transport schedule analyst
- Bus scheduler
- Bus transportation service coordinator
- Crew dispatcher
- Crew scheduler – aeronautics
- Crew scheduler – railway transport
- Crew scheduler – transportation
- Depot clerk – transit system
- Flight crew scheduler
- Flight scheduler
- Logistics clerk – transportation
- Rapid transit scheduler
- Schedule analyst
- Schedule control clerk
- Schedule maker
- Schedule writer
- Scheduler – transit system
- Senior schedule writer
- Subway scheduler
- Train scheduler
- Transit planner
- Transit scheduler
- Transportation clerk
- Transportation route scheduler
- Transportation routes scheduler
- Transportation schedule clerk
- Transportation schedule maker
- Transportation schedules writer
- Truck scheduler
Exclusions
- Flight schedulers manager (in 70020 Managers in transportation)
- Production scheduler (in 13201 Production and transportation logistics coordinators)
- Scheduling technician – manufacturing (in 22302 Industrial engineering and manufacturing technologists and technicians)
- Crew schedulers supervisor; transportation route schedulers supervisor (in 12013 Supervisors, supply chain, tracking and scheduling coordination occupations )