Bus routes?

[stut15]

Does anyone have a schedule (past/present) of the Disney bus routes? It always seems to be a problem getting back to T&T from Downtown Disney.

 

[CleveRocks]

Disney Transport is not like city buses. There is no time table of when a bus will be at what stop. I'm sure that there's some sort of internal Disney directive dealing with dispatch and how often certain routes should run, but what you're looking for, unfortunately, does not exist. The buses get there when they get there.

-- Eric

 

[Lewisc]

Does anyone have a schedule (past/present) of the Disney bus routes? It always seems to be a problem getting back to T&T from Downtown Disney.

What is the T&T? I'm not aware of any park or resort that goes by that abbreviation. AFAIK buses don't run between the theme parks, including the TTC for the MK, and DTD.

 

[DisneyConvert]

Buses are dispatched from 6 or 7 "hub" regions (which coincide roughly with the major theme parks and Downtown Disney) to the resorts, TTC and smaller parks they connect.

There are fixed routes (pretty much, although they will sometimes consolidate and split destinations depending on traffic demand) but no fixed schedule.

Rather, the goal is that a bus arrives at a given stop going to a given (set of) destination(s) at least every 20 minutes -- more often when there is lots of volume.

For example, 1/2 hour before park opening, there will be frequent bus service from the (separate!) All Star and Pop Century resorts to all the parks. More often than 20 minutes, since the volume justifies it.

During the middle of the day, the route to the Animal Kingdom and Blizzard Beach will be consolidated. Similarly, the same bus route may serve Wilderness, Contemporary, Poly and Grand Floridian, whereas later when the parks close, separate buses will go to the WLodge-Contemporary and the Poly-Grand Floridian.

The goal is to provide a minimium level of service all the time while tailoring capacity to dynamic demand.

 

[rtphokie]

Is the radio dispatching of busses based on demand still going on? I remember them trying this a while back.