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Run your own bus company.
Found a bus company in a real part of the UK, win your operator's licence, buy the buses, hire the drivers and build a network people want to ride. Then keep it running, minute by minute.
Sign in with your Schedulo account. Already use Schedulo? The game is added to the account you have.
- Real placesBus stops from NaPTAN and timetables from the Bus Open Data Service.
- Real rulesO-licences, drivers' hours, fares and tenders, the way UK operators work.
- Saves in the cloudYour companies are kept with your account, so carry on from any computer.
- Nothing to installIt runs in your web browser on a laptop or desktop.
What you'll do
Everything a bus company does, and you're in charge.
Made by the people behind the Schedulo scheduling software, so the planning works the way it does at a real depot.
Plan a network on real streets
Pick your stops on the map, draw the route and set how often it runs. Start somewhere you know, or learn the ropes in the demo town of Brindley Heath.
- Real bus stops and the services already running there
- Timetables by day type: school days, Saturdays, Sundays
- Fares, tickets and passes that change who travels
Schedule the buses and the drivers
Turn timetables into vehicle blocks and drivers' duties. Cut the duties, check the breaks and the hours, then roster your people week by week.
- Trip grids, journey times and headways
- Duties that follow drivers' hours rules
- Rosters, rest days and cover when someone's off
Run the live day
Watch every bus move on the map from 04:00 until the last one is back at the depot. Breakdowns, late running and bad weather are yours to sort out.
- Live map with your buses and other operators'
- Control room for what's going wrong right now
- Engineering, inspections and spare vehicles
Win tenders and see off your rivals
Bid for council contracts with a full costing behind your price. Other operators compete on your roads, and they won't make it easy.
- Tender calculator: buses, drivers, costs and margin
- Route battles with rival operators
- Reputation built on punctuality and reliability
Keep the books
Fares in, wages, fuel and leases out. See where the money goes each day and whether the month is on track.
- Profit and loss, cash flow and forecasts
- Loans, leases and buying your own depot
- Every figure in pounds and pence
Operator's licence
Apply, keep it in good standing, and grow how many vehicles it allows.
Fleet
Buy new or second-hand, lease or hire, and give each bus your livery.
Staff
Drivers, engineers, inspectors and office staff, with pay, contracts and agency cover.
Things go wrong
Weather, breakdowns, events and complaints. How you respond is what passengers remember.
Getting started
Three steps to your first bus on the road.
The game uses your Schedulo account. There are no licence keys to type in.
Request an account
Tell us your name and email. If you already use Schedulo, sign in first and the game is added to your account.
We switch it on
We'll email you as soon as your account is ready, with a link to set your password if you're new.
Sign in and play
Open the game, choose Sign in with Schedulo and found your company. Your saves follow you to any computer.
The depot
Where players meet.
Every operator has a depot where crews swap notes before the first bus goes out. The game has one too: a place to run against friends, compare how your company is doing and learn from people who do this for real.
Lobbies with invite codes
Start a shared area and give friends a code to join. Each of you runs your own company on the same roads.
Leaderboard
See how your punctuality, passengers and profit compare with every other operator.
Monthly awards
Most reliable operator, best newcomer and more, decided by what happened on the road that month.
Tell us what to build
Ideas, bugs and stories from your own depot shape the next release. Email Support@schedulo.uk.
Lobbies, the leaderboard and awards are built into the game and arrive in a coming update. Request an account now and you'll be ready when they open.
How Schedulo fits
The same jobs the real software does.
Schedulo: The Game is made by the team behind the Schedulo planning tools that operators use every day. What you do in the game is the work each of them does in a real office.
Timetables: Schedulo TXC
Registering a service and writing its timetable, the way operators publish to the Bus Open Data Service.
Buses and duties: Schedulo Bus
Building vehicle blocks and drivers’ duties so every journey has a bus and a driver.
Rosters: Schedulo Roster
Turning duties into weekly rosters that respect drivers’ hours and rest days.
Private hire: Schedulo Coach
Quoting and running private hire and school work alongside the registered services.
One account: the Schedulo client area
The account you play with is the same one operators use for the real tools.
Questions
Good to know
Do I need a licence key?
No. You sign in with your Schedulo account, and once your account has the game you can play.
I already use Schedulo Bus or Schedulo TXC. Do I need another account?
No. Sign in on the request page with the account you already have, and the game is added to it. You'll use the same email and password, or Google, to play.
Where are my saved games kept?
In the cloud, with your account. Save in the game and carry on from any computer you sign in on.
What do I need to play?
A laptop or desktop computer with an up-to-date web browser such as Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari. The game is made for a full-size screen, so phones aren't supported.
Is it a real simulation?
It's a game, but it's built on real UK rules and 2025 to 2026 figures wherever we can, from drivers' hours to fares and costs. Where we've had to estimate, we keep it believable.
Who makes it?
Newey Transport Services, the team behind the Schedulo transport planning software used by bus and coach operators.
Something isn't working
Email Support@schedulo.uk and tell us what happened. A screenshot helps.
Your depot is waiting.
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