Build the day center run once. Run it all month.
Most PACE trips are the same participants, going to the same day center, on the same days. Bambi lets your dispatch team build those routes once with Run Bambi Run, save them as route templates, and put out a whole month of day center runs in a few clicks.
What changes when day center routes stop being rebuilt every morning.
Day center transportation is predictable. Your software should treat it that way.
Routes built by the optimizer
Run Bambi Run groups participants who live near each other into the fewest vans, in the right pickup order, before anyone saves a template.
Couples ride together
Put a husband and wife on the same template, in the same van, so they arrive at the center together every time.
A month at a time
Apply your templates to the whole month at once. The recurring trips come from Trip Subscriptions, so nobody rebooks a standing ride.
Exceptions stay visible
New enrollments and one-off trips stay unassigned, so dispatch handles the changes instead of rebuilding the board.
Optimize first, then lock it in.
Start with the trips. Trip Subscriptions create each participant's recurring rides to and from the day center, four weeks ahead. Then run Run Bambi Run on a typical day. It weighs vehicle capacity, wheelchairs and pickup windows and suggests the routes.
Happy with them? Save each run as a route template. That is how myPlace Health built its day center routes: optimize with Bambi, then lock the suggestions in as templates instead of re-optimizing every day.
Apply the whole month in a few clicks.
Pick a future date, click Route and choose your templates. Bambi matches that day's unassigned trips to each template and assigns them to the right drivers in the right order. myPlace Health puts its day center routes out a month at a time.
Participants who use a wheelchair and participants who walk can share a van when it has room for both, because vehicle capacity is set up once per van and every template respects it.
New participants slot in. Nothing gets forced.
Trips that do not match a template stay unassigned, so a new enrollment or a one-off visit gets a dispatcher's eye or a pass of Run Bambi Run. Add the new participant to the template that fits, or let the optimizer place them, and the next month's routes include them.
Day center runs are where PACE transportation is most efficient: one van, several participants, one destination. Keeping them consistent is how you protect that efficiency as enrollment grows.
What mattered most to us wasn’t perfection, it was progress. Seeing consistent improvements and real support made us feel like we finally had a partner.
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Frequently Asked Questions: PACE Day Center Routes
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