Community Transportation Systems Launching New Scheduling Software

Software demonstration with Area of Richmond Transit staff

Community transportation systems in Stanly and Richmond counties are preparing to transition to the TrIP_Maker scheduling and reporting software by entering customer, trip, and funding data in preparation for the system’s live launch on July 1.

TrIP_Maker and other scheduling software products provide many benefits for the user:

1. The software enables small urban and community transportation systems to easily manage their clients, organize their trips onto runs, map the runs to improve efficiency, and automatically generate bills, operating statistics, performance, and other essential management reports;
2. The software helps standardize business practices and prepare the transit systems for future advanced technologies; and
3. There is an industry-wide demand for increased performance measurements and service statistics. Implementing TrIP_Maker gives these transportation providers the tools to quickly compile and report accurate and reliable data to meet these demands.

With these two new sites on board, TrIP_Maker is now in use at 16 public transportation systems in North Carolina. The software is designed and supported by the Institute for Transportation Research and Education at North Carolina State University.

Transit systems in N.C. using TrIP_Maker