A transit authority's on-time performance is falling, and operation…

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A transit authority's on-time performance is falling, and operations blames the vehicle fleet. The CHRO overlays operator vacancy and extra-board depth on the same KPI chart. What is the purpose of that overlay?

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To show whether workforce gaps, not only vehicles, are driving the strategy slippage. — If buses are late, counting only broken engines is like blaming the oven when nobody showed up to bake. Extra-board depth and operator vacancies sit on the same clock as the vehicles. Overlaying those people numbers shows whether the strategy is slipping for lack of drivers, not just lack of buses.

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To prove that fleet age is irrelevant and that HR metrics always outrank operations metrics.

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To move on-time performance out of the strategic plan and onto a recruiting dashboard only.

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To justify overtime without examining whether runs can be scheduled with current operators.

A transit authority's on-time performance is falling, and operations blames the vehicle fleet. The CHRO overlays operator vacancy and extra-board depth on the same KPI chart. What is the purpose of that overlay?

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