Casual
A simple screen of its own: Today, Drive a shift, four tiles and tips. The company plans itself.
- Planning
- Fully automatic
- Disruptions
- Rare, solved for you
- Money
- Generous
- RosterFlow
- Not in this mode
MODEBus company
Run your own bus company.
Pick a map you own in OMSI 2 and start an operator from nothing. Buy buses, hire drivers, win lines, plan every duty and drive the ones you want yourself. The rest of your company keeps running around you.
How it works
From founding to the first trip.
- 1
Found it
A name, a short name, your colours and a logo. Then your home map, its depot, the first day and the game mode. You can run several companies.
- 2
Build a fleet
Every bus you have installed stands in the dealer's showroom. Haggle, pick extras and wait for delivery, or find a used one by age and km. Buy, lease or rent.
- 3
Win lines
Bid for the map's lines in tenders against rival operators, or draw lines of your own in the line editor. Each line has its own fare.
- 4
Plan and drive
Decide who drives what, then drive your own duties in the game exactly as planned. Your other buses run the timetable on the map.
Game modes
As relaxed or as real as you like.
One choice per company. Change it any time in the company's settings.
Normal
The full company with hints along the way. You step in when you want to.
- Planning
- Repairs itself every morning
- Disruptions
- Calmer than real life
- Money
- Close to real
- RosterFlow
- Optional add-on
Realistic
The full company, compact. Every plan and every repair is yours.
- Planning
- You plan and repair
- Disruptions
- Real-life frequency
- Money
- Real and tight
- RosterFlow
- Optional add-on
What it offers
Everything a real operator does.
Fleet
Midibuses to double-deckers, sorted from their own files. Every bus has its condition, wear, km, value, liveries and adverts.
Staff
Drivers, mechanics, cleaners, ticket inspectors and more, each with a job market of their own. Wages by experience, stress, sick days and a holiday planner.
Licences and training
A driver only drives the bus types they are trained for. Courses in punctuality, eco driving and customer service make them better.
Working-time rules
At most 9½ hours a duty and 10 a working day, 20 minutes between pieces of work and 11 hours of rest overnight. Agency drivers fill the gaps.
Lines and concessions
Tenders with rival bidders decide who runs a line, for a set term. Draw your own lines too, with circular routes, and see what they cost and bring before you pay.
Money
Fares, concession fees and contracts come in. Wages, fuel, maintenance, insurance, the depot and leases go out. Monthly books, and banks lend against your fleet.
Depot and workshop
A yard with a capacity, a workshop with jobs, repairs and services, and a store of spare parts. Wear and age break buses down, maintenance keeps them going.
Growth
Levels unlock features, trophies buy research and bigger bus sizes, and advertisers pay for the rear, the sides or a full wrap. Contracts and goals bring rewards.
The day
Every morning, something happens.
Your company has its own clock. Let time run, jump an hour or to tomorrow, or follow the real clock: a long absence is caught up, up to 31 days.
- Sick calls, late drivers, breakdowns and incidents, every day
- The dispatcher shows who is free, and the exact reason anyone else is not
- Close the day, and the books settle themselves
ADD-ONBus scheduling and crew rostering
RosterFlow
Professional planning software, inside the game. The way real operators build a timetable, chain trips into bus blocks, cut them into driver duties and give each duty a name. Optional in Normal and Realistic.
RosterFlow
OPTIMIZESAVE
5PVR
7duties
52h 30mpaid hours
18,4 kmdeadhead
€ 3.912cost / day
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Draft: 3 changes, not savedMon 03 Jun · lines 109, 110
Timeplan
A line's running times per time band, and its timetable grid with the trips made by headway. Your hand edits show in orange until you refresh.
Vehicles
Trips chained into blocks: one bus's day. Arrow chips in the line's colour, depot boxes and empty runs. Drag a trip and star-rated drop zones show what each place costs.
Drivers
Blocks cut into duties: one driver's working day, cut only at a terminus or the depot. Join, split, build by hand and lock, with the working-time rules checked as you go.
Roster
Which named driver drives which duty on which day. The day switcher marks the days with agenda entries, and Copy to repeats the rows you tick on another day, with Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V too.
- OptimizeBlocking and runcutting as a proposal you accept or keep. It cuts a bus that runs empty between trips.
- ValidationGlobal, duty and vehicle issues in one panel, with your own hard and soft rules.
- DraftsEvery edit is a draft until you save. Lock, pin, undo, redo and keyboard shortcuts.
- PrintThe bus graph and the duty graph as a PDF, ready for the depot wall.
- New linesDraw the route in the line editor, then build its timetable, blocks and duties in RosterFlow.
- Guided tourLessons inside RosterFlow walk you through your first plan.
In the cab
Drive the duty you planned.
The duty opens exactly as planned: the date, the sign-on time, the line, the trips, the bus, the depot and the map. If anything blocks it, you see why and go back to the planning.
- What you drive counts as measured: punctuality, km and a trip score
- The duties you leave are driven by your company
- In Casual, Drive a shift offers three or four of today's duties as cards
On the way
What comes next.
Omsi-Hub is in beta and grows with every release. This is on the board.
- A real optimiser
- Rotating, fair rosters
- Planned against actual in the dispatcher
- Punctuality control
- A driver app on your phone
- Passenger information
- Buses across lines (interlining)
- Hired planners
- A multiplayer company
Your depot is waiting.
Free, for Windows and Mac. Needs an installed OMSI 2.