Scope: At the commencement of every trip, there is a certain set of announcements that needs to be made, which contains information about trip details, amenities provided and covid rules to be adhered to on the bus. The announcement can be made verbally by driver or by playing the announcement CD.


Service Level Agreement (SLA): 3 - 5 minutes


Tools: CD player on bus, mail ([email protected])


Roles & Responsibilities : 


RACI Model for Process Execution: Please read R as Responsible; A as Accountable; C as Consulted ; I as Informed

* Customer Service: CS; Dispatch Operations: DO; Transport Provider : TP; Bus Driver: BD; Customer: CX*



Table 1.0 (In case of Verbal Announcement)

StepCode

Process 

SLA

R

A

C

I

AT

DO provides the soft copy of the driver announcement via mail to the TP.

24-48 hrs prior to the first trip

DO

DO


TP

DC

DO informs the same to CS

Immediately

DO

DO


CS

TB

TP informs BD

24 hrs

TP

TP


BD

BA

BD makes a verbal announcement

3-5 minutes

BD

TP


CX





RACI Model for Process Execution: Please read R as Responsible; A as Accountable; C as Consulted ; I as Informed

* Customer Service: CS; Dispatch Operations: DO; Transport Provider : TP; Bus Driver: BD; Customer: CX*



Table 1.0 (In case of CD Announcement)

StepCode

Process 

SLA

R

A

C

I

AT

DO provides the soft copy of the driver announcement via mail to the TP.

24-48 hrs prior to the first trip

DO

DO


TP

DC

DO informs the same to CS

Immediately

DO

DO


CS

TB

TP informs BD

24 hrs

TP

TP


BD

BA

BD plays the CD announcement on the bus.

3-5 minutes

BD

TP


CX



Process: 

  1. DO provides a soft copy of the announcement of the transport provider companies during the initial onboarding stage.


  1. The soft copy of the announcement can be in the form of a document or a CD containing the entire announcement, which needs to be played mandatorily before beginning each if the driver isn’t making verbal announcements.


  1. The basic pointers to be included in every announcement include - greetings, trip operator name, driver information, mask policy during COVID times, information about the sanitation of the bus, WiFi information (along with the WiFi password), amenities provided, restrictions and prohibitions to be followed on the bus, detailed information about the route including the stops.


  1. DO inform the CS team about the driver announcement process and  also about what all details the announcement covers. So, if any customer comes up to the CS team with queries related to the policies then the CS team can guide them accordingly.


  1. After the mail is received by the TP, then TP passes on the same information to the Bus drivers.

5.1. If the driver wants to make a verbal announcement, then they can take aid of the document provided by the TP to the bus driver.

5.2. If the driver feels comfortable with making a CD announcement then, they can take help of the CD announcement provided to them by TP and 


  1. If in any case, the CS team ever receives any call from the passengers stating that any passenger on board is not following the instructions given during the commencement of the trip, then the driver is asked to make a re-announcement. 





Execution model: Based on RACI Model


Quality Check (QC): NA


Compliance Assessment (CA): Yes/No, if no, what's the reason - Yes, compliance assessment needs to be done in a timely manner to ensure that drivers are following the procedure dutifully. 


Business Continuity Plan (BCP): NA


Work-Load assessment: 6 minutes.