The same engine that redesigns agency networks prepares planning studies and tender bids. This page is for the consultancies that deliver network studies and the operators that run service under contract.
The value of a network study depends on how many alternatives the team can examine. With Flow, complete candidate networks arrive in minutes, so the team covers far more of the option space than the corner it had time to draw, and every recommendation carries the same scorecard.
When the client's board asks a follow-up question, the answer takes an afternoon, with no change order, and the assumptions behind it are yours to show.
Operators bidding on a contract can test compliant and variant networks inside the bid window, with the tender's requirements set as hard constraints: fleet ceilings, span of service, frequency minimums, depot locations. Every candidate that comes back already satisfies the service specification, so bid engineering time goes into the variants that might win.
Each candidate reports estimated peak vehicles, revenue hours, and revenue miles alongside travel time and coverage: planning-level estimates your schedulers refine when they cut runs. The operating cost of a bid and the service quality it buys sit in the same view before you price it.
Maps, scorecards, and reports carry your branding, and the chosen network exports as GTFS for the client's scheduling and rider information systems. The analysis you deliver is reproducible: anyone who opens the scenario sees the assumptions it was scored under, and your client's data stays in their workspace.
After award, the winning network moves straight to scheduling. Flow designs networks and service levels; detailed timetables, vehicle blocks, and rostering stay in the scheduling system you already run.