Boost for NBC projects
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A MAJOR BOOST for National Bus Company's market analysis project came this week when news broke of its sale to Scottish Bus Group for a 30-month period.
SBG plans to undertake a major review of all of its services between now and the end of 1981, and is drafting in a team of specialists to operate the project, which is codenamed ScotMAP.
It will be led by former City of Oxford traffic manager Peter Lutman who is being seconded by NBC's consultancy services division. Malcolm Buchanan of Colin Buchanan and Partners will also fulfil a part-time role on ScotMAP.
SBG chairman Ian Irwin said this week: "We feel that each of the seven operating companies will benefit in different ways from MAP and that information it produces and the service revisions that could result will place the Group on a sound footing for the 1980s."
A team of ScotMAP specialists in Edinburgh will be backed up by seven planning and development officers who will be based at each of the operating companies' head offices in Kirkcaldy, Falkirk, Aberdeen, Motherwell, Edinburgh, Inverness, and Kilmarnock.
MAP grew out of Midland Red's viable network project which was established to identify which services are in greatest demand and which services can operate without revenue support from local authorities.