Commuter transportation for Silicon Valley employers
Employee shuttles exist to solve two measurable problems: parking capacity and commute friction. In Cupertino both are acute — campus parking is finite, and the last mile between a Caltrain or VTA station and an office off Stevens Creek Boulevard or Wolfe Road can take longer than several miles of freeway.
We operate employee shuttle programs as scheduled services, not as a series of charters. That means fixed stops, published departure times, consistent vehicle assignments and a dispatch contact who knows the route.
Program types we operate
- Recurring commuter routes between residential corridors and Cupertino offices
- Park-and-ride transportation from satellite lots to campus entrances
- Transit connection shuttles timed to Caltrain and VTA arrivals
- Office-to-office and interoffice campus loops
- First-mile and last-mile transportation at the start and end of the workday
- Customized schedules for shift changes and compressed work weeks
- Employee event transportation — all-hands meetings, offsites, appreciation events
- Temporary shuttles during construction, parking closures or relocation
Route planning and stop design
A shuttle route is designed backwards from the arrival requirement. If employees must badge in by 9:00, the last drop needs a buffer, which sets the departure time at the first stop, which determines how many stops the route can carry before the ride becomes unattractive. Adding a fourth stop to save five employees a walk often costs thirty employees ten minutes — that trade-off is the core of route design.
Stop selection also has to survive real streets: a stop needs a legal place to pull out of traffic, a safe boarding area and a turning path the vehicle can actually use. We drive candidate routes before committing them to a schedule.
Vehicle sizing and schedule adjustment
Programs are sized to expected ridership, then corrected with data. We track boarding counts by stop and by run, and after a few weeks the picture is usually clear: a morning run at capacity and an afternoon run at a third of it means the schedule needs changing, not the vehicle. Available vehicle classes range from Sprinter vans to 56-passenger motorcoaches; see the fleet.
What a proposal includes
Send us the office address, candidate stop locations, target arrival and departure times, service days and expected ridership. We return a route plan with run times, recommended vehicle class, headway and pricing per service day. Programs can start with a pilot period before committing to a longer term.
For one-time company movements rather than recurring service, see corporate charter bus transportation.