North Star Transport
Midday Opportunity Explorer

Current network, dormant midday capacity, and nearby private-hire & HSE demand across Dublin.

17
Buses on road
4–5h
Idle midday
Pickups
Demand POIs

Most buses sit unused between the morning and afternoon school runs. The map shows what that idle capacity could serve.

① Current network
② Discover: pick an idle-bus location

Buses finish their morning run at a destination centre. Choose one to see ranked midday opportunities within 3 km.

③ Demand layers
④ Revenue opportunity model
Financial figures hidden. Click “Show figures” to restore.
Buses available midday6
Midday jobs per bus / week3
Avg revenue per job€350
Operating weeks / year38
Weekly uplift
Annual uplift

Defaults from the June interviews: ~€350 per 2-hour midday job; avg bus currently earns €280–290/day on school work alone. Full logic in revenue_model_methodology.xlsx.

Pickup data: North Star master route file (geocoded via Google). Demand POIs: OpenStreetMap + seeded venues; refresh with fetch_pois.py (Google Places API). Illustrative figures only; validate before client use.