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In 1997, part of the site was purchased by the multinational company Kostal , which mainly produces electrical parts for cars. The number of employees at the plant quickly reached 700, the vast majority of whom commuted from Hořovice and Příbram and their surroundings, so from the beginning the company provided employees with company transport from a local carrier. 

The company was constantly expanding production, and due to recruitment it was necessary to expand the service area, which, however, with the chosen service method (regular transport, direct connections, 100% contractual) led to a disproportionate increase in its price. 

In 2001, we were asked for consultations to make transport more efficient. However, within 2 years, we were unable to convince the carrier to apply proposals that were not common in contractual transport at the time (shift lines, transfers, cooperation with public transport, guaranteed transfers, demand transport): transport costs were growing quadratically with the number of employees, the company was preparing to open another plant for 2,000 employees and this style of company transport would be financially unsustainable, so at the end of 2003, the company decided to hand over the organisation of transport to us as a dispatching office.

Since 2004, we have been organizing transport together with the newly opened Kostal plant in Zdice. We applied demand transport to both plants and organized transport for each day with two people according to passenger orders. By applying various optimization procedures, we reduced the company's transport expenses by 1/3 while maintaining serviceability and even shortening the average transport time. 

Transport complaints directed at the company have also almost disappeared thanks to their systematic resolution and consistent application of corrective measures.

Part of the optimization was the relatively early adaptation of the public line passing by the plant to the company's shifts. This line served Příbram and Hořovice, i.e. the majority of workers. We referred the rest to public connections and, when they were not available, we supplemented them with contractual connections, which was an optimal situation not only from the perspective of the company's expenses, but also from the perspective of ecology and other companies in the area, which, although not participating in contractual transport, could use the line connections, which, thanks to us, were adapted to the operation in the area.

Zdice - Černín Industrial Complex

From 2003 to present

In 2003, the multinational company Kostal built a production hall for the production of car parts for approximately 1,300 employees on a "green field" between Králův Dvůr and Zdice on the D5 highway. Most of the employees commuted from near and far. Approximately 1/4 of those who transferred from the Čenkov plant lived in Příbram, 40 km away. In 2005, another hall was built and the number of employees exceeded 2,000 within two years. 

In 2007, over 700 passengers traveled from an area of ​​45 x 50 km including villages, which was the maximum. 

The plant was difficult to access by public transport from the beginning. Despite many negotiations, neither the city, the region nor the company have been able to build a public transport stop near the plant to this day, although the main road II/605 runs around it, on which over 100 public buses pass daily, and the nearby town of Zdice is a major railway junction. Therefore, public transport for employees has been dependent on contractual transport from the beginning.

For the first few months, two local private carriers organized the transport, but because they chose a conservative approach of 100% contracted direct transport for all shifts, they were unable to accommodate all passengers and even then the costs were increasing at an undesirable rate. Therefore, the company decided to hand over this transport to us, similar to what happened in Čenkov.

From the beginning, we applied demand transport and, with two people, we organized transport for each day according to passenger orders for this plant and two others (Čenkov and Trubín). By applying demand transport and optimization procedures, we reduced the company's transport expenses to 1/3 of the expected amount of scheduled transport. For example, we managed to connect the plant to the Beroun public transport, so we served Beroun very conveniently for passengers for the price of only the extended distance from the final public transport (only 3 km per connection), so that servicing Beroun was 5 times cheaper than would be required by classic contractual transport.

Complaints about transport directed at the company in the first months without a dispatch center also almost disappeared thanks to their systematic resolution and consistent application of corrective measures.

During the years 2017 to 2021, the production of the Kostal company moved to a newly built plant in Bulgaria and production in Zdice ended. The supplier company Hronovský moved to the Zdice plant , already on a smaller scale, with a total of around 350 employees. The company's transport was maintained in a similar form as for Kostal, i.e. demand-based, but the service area was reduced to rural zones to maintain efficiency for a much smaller number of passengers.

We currently transport around 200 passengers on the Beroun, Hořovice and Příbram routes in 8 and 12 shift modes.

Ariete Workshop - Trubín

From 2013 to 2019

Part of the associated production of the subcontractor Kostal was in the nearby village of Trubín (about 10 km from Zdice). Around 200 agency workers worked there in a 12-hour regime, almost all of whom were dependent on company transport. They commuted from Beroun, Příbram, Hořovice, Jinec and other villages. We advantageously connected this service to the Zdice plant, where passengers transferred to a connecting line, which was actually an extension of the Příbram or Hořovice line, to which Beroun residents transferred from public transport. The transport lasted for the entire period of operation of the Trubín plant.

Kostal Workshop - Cerhovice

From 2016 to 2019

About 100 people worked in the workshop in Cerhovice , about 15km west of Zdice. Most of them used their own transport, but we also provided company transport to individuals. Due to the small number of employees, we used public transport as much as possible, so transport was also quite efficient there.

Cooper-Standard Automotive CR, sro, Žďár nad Sázavou

In 2008

We provided transportation for 20-30 passengers from surrounding municipalities who did not have their own or public transportation for all shifts. We used public transportation to the maximum, supplementing it with contracted transportation to the extent necessary to ensure that passengers could get to each shift they needed.

Analyses

Kostal - Pazardzik (BG)

from 2017 to 2023

The newly built plant in Pazardzik (about 50 km west of Plovdiv) took over production from the closed plant in Zdice. This plant employs around 1,800 people and provides an extensive corporate transport network with 15 regular lines. We regularly prepare transport analyses and recommendations for the efficiency of transport for this plant.