Overview of HASTUS Current and Future Versions

The original work related to HASTUS software began in 1974 with a joint research project between the Transportation Research Center (C.R.T.) of the University of Montreal and the Montreal Urban Community Transit Corporation (S.T.C.U.M.). Since then, considerable development efforts have produced a state-of-the- art software package that addresses the vehicle and crew scheduling problems of the transit industry. Our company, GIRO Inc, was created to undertake the commercial development and distribution of this optimization software. GIRO has implemented or is currently implementing HASTUS more than twenty-five sites around the world, either directly or in cooperation with local firms in operations research and transportation planning. GIRO has grown rapidly and today counts more than 40 professionals.