The usergroup optimization convened for this year’s second annual meeting on 2018, September 27/28 in Husum, hosted by transdev Maintenance GmbH. The 19 participants from Germany, Luxemburg, Norway, and Switzerland discussed a wide variety of topics including usability, idle turns, adaptation optimization, integration of parking capacities (including e-busses), optimization status reports, shifting of break point connections, school start timing, stipulations of the client body, optimization profiles, vehicles changes in the depots, scheduling according to average working time values, IVU.plan line graphics, optimization with qualifications, IVU.plan trip times, intermediate optimization results, and railway optimization. In addition, transdev provided a tour though their Husum maintenance facilities. All these new impulses as well as the dike walk provided ample topics of conversations for the two evening event at Husum pub and Compass restaurant. The photo shows (from left to right) host Marice Greulich (transdev), Frank Wenzel (BVG), Steffen Schuldt (WVG), Christophe Santini (CFL), Björn Eidsheim (Norgesbus), Alexandre Alegria (CFL), Sven Krämer (BVG), Joël Wolff (AVL), Carol Müller (IVU), Andreas Löbel (LBW), Claudio Pajarola (Postauto), Carsten Hitschfeld (WVG), Andreas Melzig (transdev), UG chairman Jens Jungblut (KVB), Gregor Karbstein (IVU), Tamara Thomas (abellio), Mario Krell (abellio), Björn Johansson (KVG) und Ralf Borndörfer (LBW).
