Welcome to TESS Scheduling

We provide automated vehicle scheduling systems.

Our App helps you create your vehicle rosters and driver shift patterns quickly and efficiently, which can reduce your overheads, improve your modelling and analysis capabilities, and allow you time to focus on other parts of your business.

TESS Elation™ is designed for use by Consultants, Operators and Governments

Familiar input: Service design inputs are uploaded such as routes, journeys (trips) and locations (origins and destinations).

Fully flexible: The user has complete control over various legal and operational assumptions such as spread over, maximum working hours, break times and vehicle size restrictions. Parameters can be flexed in order to investigate different scenarios, providing on-demand rescheduling in seconds rather than weeks.

Comprehensive outputs: TESS Elation™ delivers your complete vehicle timeline in a print-friendly format, along with a complete data set that we can use to provide any type of analysis required. Standard reports include Driver rosters, Vehicle base schedules, and forecasts of working times, mileage by vehicle, stem journeys and repositions.

The system is flexible and scalable, and we aim to work with you to develop new analysis according to your needs. For many clients this app represents opportunities that have not existed before, so we will work with you to understand how this information can be leveraged further to give you better insights.

Transport and Economic Support Services (TESS); established in 1994 as a consulting firm, specialising in transport economics and supportive services, initially concentrating in public transport, physical distribution, facility assessment projects, policy studies, viability studies, training and information technology. Over the years, TESS however became more involved in various aspects regarding general road transport matters. TESS’s infrastructure currently consists of offices in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, Empangeni, Cape Town and George (South Africa).

Click here to see TESS consulting specialisms
- Transport planning;
- The design of transport contracts and transport networks;
- Operational and financial analysis of transport networks and services;
- Implementation of automatic fare collection systems;
- The administration, supervision and monitoring of bus passenger contracts;
- Transport planning for urban and rural areas;
- Vehicle and crew scheduling;
- The formulation of transport policy and strategies;
- Feasibility analysis of transport operations;
- Training of transport operators in tendering, management and operations;
- Management and business support to small public and freight transport operators;
- General advice to local and provincial authorities at various levels; and
- Project management.

Gatcombe Analytics Ltd

Finance and technical modelling specialists with extensive experience forecasting vehicle journeys across the UK and worldwide in support of HM Government