On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:08:31PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Donnerstag, 18. Juli 2013, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > > > I like your idea but we need to find a solution to alocate people to the > > > different coaches. > > Just let the people build up queues in front of the busses... And what if the first is almost empty and the last has 100 persons for a 75 persons coach (i had this experience already). > > The simplest solution (algorithmically) > > I believe the above is simpler :) > > > would be to have a bunch of seat > > cards printed with bus number and departure time on them, equal to number > > of seats on the buses. Then distribute those among the trip goers and leave > > the surplus with the organizers. So people willing to go earlier (or later) > > could just exchange seat cards with other people with opposite preference > > (or with organizers, if there are still empty seats). > > right and then (some/too many) people will still not show up at the bus for > which they have a card and then reshuffling will begin as well. So more work > for no gain. If they don't show up then they are on their own: public transport or taxi. Well, I like the idea of the tickets. It needs a little bit of administrative work, printing tickets, giving them to attendees and then the bus driver will check them but then it is quite a flexible system which allow last minute swap for attendees. Aigars, do you have already a real experience with that system you could share with us ? Cheers, Raphaël
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