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Use the Trip Connections preference to define the conditions under which two trips can be connected. For example, you can configure it so that two trips connect only if they are on the same route or if a specific layover time exists between them.
You can configure how routes interline and interact with each other.
Open Preferences 
and search for a preference called Trip Connections under Vehicles.
This allows you to define rules for how trips are connected.
It works by loading a template. There are different templates available, such as:
Route groups scheduling: Allows routes within a route group to interline with each other, but not with routes outside the group.
For example, route group 2 shown below, once the preference is set, can interline with each other but not with other routes.
You can use this Preference if you want a few specific routes to interline together while keeping them separate from everything else. Select the route group from the drop down.
For example, the route group School can only be scheduled with itself (routes in that group):
No interlining within route group: Prevents routes within the group from interlining with each other or with any other routes.
For example, if you add the School route group to the No interlining within route group template, the school routes will be completely independent, meaning they cannot interline with each other or with other routes.
This is useful when you have several routes you want to schedule independently, without needing to create a separate route group.
Trip connections can also be used to express many preferences, including Layover percentages and options to connect only specific routes together that go through a specific stop. There are some very specific rules that can be set to help schedule more efficiently.
Layover Balance Preference: This template is used to indicate a preference for balanced layovers, meaning layovers are distributed roughly equally between trips. For example, if there are two drivers you might prefer that each receive a 30-minute layover rather than one driver receiving a 50-minute layover and the other receiving only 10 minutes. This template allows you to apply a higher penalty to longer layovers than to shorter ones, helping to create a more equitable distribution of layovers across the schedule.
Layover percentage: The layover percentage template allows you to make the layover time contingent on trip duration. For example, if two trips with a combined duration of 120 minutes are connected and the layover percentage is set to 10%, a layover of at least 12 minutes will be scheduled between them.
Route fixed link: The Route Fixed Link template allows you to specify that two routes must be performed consecutively, but only at a specific stop. For example, you can specify that Routes 101 and 102 must be performed one after the other, but only if they occur at Opland St station.
Note: The order of the trip connections in the preference determines how they are applied across the schedule, with higher-positioned taking priority over lower ones. To change the order, hover over a trip connection and use the arrows to move it up or down until the desired order is set. 