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Okay. This is just a skeleton, but this creates 50,000 Bus objects, and gives each of them 33 x 80-byte timetables. All are individually getable and setable. All fully OO (externally).

Total data: 50,000 * 33 * 80 = 125 MB.

Total process memory consumed: 140 MB.

Adding methods to manipulate the data is just a case of each method calling the get() routine and then splitting the data into it's constituent bits to manipulate. Trading a little time for memory. 

#! perl -slw
use strict;

package Buses;

sub new {
    my( $class, $timeTablesObj ) = @_;
    return bless \$timeTablesObj, $class;
}

sub getTimeTable {
    my( $self, $id ) = @_;
    return $$self->get( $id );
}

sub setTimeTable {
    my( $self, $id, $new ) = @_;
    return $$self->set( $id, $new );
}


package Timetables;

sub new{ 
    my( $class, $timetable ) = @_;
    return bless \$timetable, $class;
}

sub get{ 
    my( $self, $id ) = @_; ## Numeric ID, zero based
    return substr $$self, $id*80, 80;
}

sub set{
    my( $self, $id, $new ) = @_;
    substr $$self, $id*80, 80, pack 'a80', $new;
}

package main;

my @buses = map {
    my $timeTable = Timetables->new( 
        join '', map{ pack 'A80', $_ } 0 .. 33
    );
    Buses->new( $timeTable );
} 1 .. 50_000;


print $buses[ 49_000 ]->getTimeTable( 29 );
<STDIN>;

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Or if you need text-key access to your buses using a hash pushes it to 150 MB. 

#! perl -slw
use strict;

package Buses;

sub new {
    my( $class, $timeTablesObj ) = @_;
    return bless \$timeTablesObj, $class;
}

sub getTimeTable {
    my( $self, $id ) = @_;
    return $$self->get( $id );
}

sub setTimeTable {
    my( $self, $id, $new ) = @_;
    return $$self->set( $id, $new );
}


package Timetables;

sub new{ 
    my( $class, $timetable ) = @_;
    return bless \$timetable, $class;
}

sub get{ 
    my( $self, $id ) = @_; ## Numeric ID, zero based
    return substr $$self, $id*80, 80;
}

sub set{
    my( $self, $id, $new ) = @_;
    substr $$self, $id*80, 80, pack 'a80', $new;
}

package main;

my %buses = map {
    my $timeTable = Timetables->new( 
        join '', map{ pack 'A80', $_ } 0 .. 33
    );
    ( "BusID:$_", Buses->new( $timeTable ) );
} 1 .. 50_000;


print $buses{ "BusID:49001" }->getTimeTable( 29 );
<STDIN>;

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