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If you have a relief vehicle schedule configured, it will appear as the third tab in the top-right corner of Scheduling.
The Relief vehicle schedule tab shows your relief vehicles and their assignments in a Gantt view. It also contains a KPI dashboard with some relevant metrics, a validation panel, and other tools listed in this article.
KPI panel
The KPI dashboard at the top of the page sums up the results of your schedule and shows important metrics for you to understand its efficiency. Some of those metrics are also relevant for relief vehicles. You can learn more about the dashboard in this article.
Relief vehicle Gantt
In the center of the screen, you can see a Gantt chart. Each row represents a relief vehicle and what tasks it performs throughout the day.
Click on an event in the Gantt to see its details.
Type
From and To locations
Start and end time
Total time and distance
You can select multiple events in one row by holding the SHIFT key and clicking on the first and last event you want to select.
Depending on the type of the event, you also move, swap, or delete them.
Moving relief trips between vehicles
To move a relief trip to a different relief vehicle, follow these steps:
Click on the trip and click Move in the bottom-right corner of the popup.
You will see all the potential new spots for this trip highlighted in the Gantt.
Choose a spot and click on it, then click Drop Here in the popup.
To move a trip to a new row, thereby creating a new relief vehicle, follow these steps:
Right-click on the trip.
Click Move to new row.
Swapping trips between vehicles
To quickly make trips swap places in the Gantt, follow the steps below:
Right-click a trip.
Click Swap.
Select a trip to swap with and click on it.
Relief car schedule events
Relief car trip - colored rectangle or rectangular arrow.
Pull-in or pull-out - grayed-out rectangle. If a pull-in or pull-out takes little to no time, it may be displayed as a bracket shape preceding or following the trip.
Deadhead - black rectangle. If the deadhead is automatically generated and is not in the catalog, the rectangle will have an orange dot in the middle:
Relief car vehicle IDs column
On the left of the Gantt is the relief car vehicle ID column. Click on an ID to view information such as:
its From and To locations;
its start and end time;
its total travel time and distance throughout the day;
warnings and errors.
Here the ID of the relief car can be changed. To do that, click on the input field next to the bus icon and enter a new ID:
You can also click the button in the bottom-left corner of the popup to view all the tasks of a relief car as a table:
Validation panel
If you have a relief schedule configured, the validation panel at the bottom-right side of the screen will contain a Relief vehicle issues section.
Click on it to view all the present relief car validation issues.