Transportation Route and Crew Schedulers
Job description
These individuals organize schedules and supervise the transportation of people or goods. They are employed by road, rail, and air transport companies. They are also employed by municipal transit authorities.
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
Main tasks
- Analyze various information (number of passengers, travel time, distances, staff availability, etc.).
- Determine parameters for scheduling.
- Develop new schedules or modify existing schedules taking into account factors affecting traffic.
- Provide efficient service at a lower cost.
- Assign staff to vehicles, assign routes and schedules shifts.
- Gather data from personnel and vehicle records (hours of operation, distances, maintenance, repairs required, etc.).
- Produce operating reports.
- Prepare user guides and public utility information documents as required.
Advancement and mobility
- Experience leads to supervisory positions.
Hourly wage
Not available.Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
Very good
All of Québec
Non available
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
800
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 49.7% Female
- 50.3% Male
Not available.
- 49.7% Female
- 50.3% Male
Job types
All of Québec
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
$58,800
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- None
All of Québec
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 48, 4958% of jobs
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NAICS 621, 622, 6236% of jobs
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NAICS 914% of jobs
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NAICS 414% of jobs
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NAICS 44, 454% of jobs
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Others24% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 48, 4958% of jobs
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NAICS 621, 622, 6236% of jobs
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NAICS 914% of jobs
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NAICS 414% of jobs
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NAICS 44, 454% of jobs
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Others24% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Most training programs are offered in French only.
College
DCS in gestion des opérations et de la chaîne logistique
Code : 410A1
Placement rate: 78.7%
17% of graduates pursue further studies
Sometimes required
- Experience in the relevant transportation sector is usually required.
- A Class 5 driver’s licence may be required.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Coordination
- Information processing
- Active listening
- Oral expression
- Reading comprehension
- Result evaluation
- Time management
- Service oriented
- Written expression
- Critical thought
- Active learning
- Judgment and decision-making
- Negotiation
- Solving complex problems
Abilities
- Written expression
- Deductive reasoning
- Oral comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Speech clarity
- Speech recognition
- Information organization
- Awareness of issues
- Near vision
- Classification
- Inductive reasoning
- Selective attention
- Written comprehension
- Time sharing
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to work under pressure
- Leadership
- Knowledge of administration and management
- Autonomy
- Sense of responsibility
- Capacity to adapt
- Spoken and written bilingualism (French and English)
- Knowledge of customer and personalized services
- Capacity to work in a team
- Rigour
Interests
- Draft, communicate, and inform
- Work with numbers
- Work in transportation and maintenance
- Collect, verify, sort, and classify data or information
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
- Investigative
- People with this profile prefer relying on theoretical knowledge before acting. They like observation, analysis and problem solving.
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
Official name of the NOC 14405
Transportation route and crew schedulers
Job titles
- Logistics clerk - transportation
- Transportation clerk
- Schedule maker
- Schedule analyst
- Air transport schedule analyst
- Crew scheduler - railway transport
- Schedule control clerk
- Transportation schedule clerk
- Depot clerk - transit system
- Bus transportation service coordinator
- Scheduler - transit system
- Bus scheduler
- Flight crew scheduler
- Truck scheduler
- Subway scheduler
- Train scheduler
- Transportation routes scheduler
- Flight scheduler
- Transportation route scheduler
- Transportation schedule maker
- Rapid transit scheduler
- Senior schedule writer
- Transit planner
- Crew scheduler - aeronautics
- Crew scheduler - transportation
- Crew dispatcher
Skill type
Business, finance and administration
Last update: January 29, 2026
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