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Duty travel is when the driver moves between their duty locations by means other than their own operating vehicle.
There are four different travel modes: Relief Car, Walk, Public Transportation, and Other.
Using the Duty Travel preference, you can upload duty travel catalogs and add travel events to your schedule.
To start, open the preferences screen and search for Duty Travel. You will see four travel categories underneath.
Walk
A walk relief is when a driver moves from one location to another on foot. To add a walk catalog, select Walk in the Duty Travel preference.
Click Add Preference.
Name the Duty Travel type and select your Walk catalog.
The catalog can then be accessed directly by clicking on the Ct link to its right.
3. To filter for specific Purposes, Routes, Stops, or another Custom expression, click + Add Criteria to open the drop-down menu and add another layer of control over the catalog.
Walk event will appear as a yellow contour box type in the Gantt chart, with a W inside, to represent the walking travels:
Public Transportation
A public transportation relief is when a driver moves from one place to the other using another bus or any other public transport. To define the catalog, select Public Transportation.
Click Add Preference.
Name the Duty Travel type and select the appropriate catalog, to assign it as the Public Transportation catalog:
The default option is to add the trips in the schedule to the catalog, and in that case, it is possible to choose which trips to include, from Service Trips, Deadheads, and Pulls:
4. The available routes for Travel can also be selected on Route trips.
5. The Select Criteria field can be used too, for an added level of customization, filtering the trips on a more granular level:
6. In the Public Transportation preference tab, there is also a Connections section, where the Maximum number of transfers (also called Legs) allowed can be defined, as well as the Possible combinations of different travel times, which is usually Walk:
Referring back to the catalog’s Purpose column, any entry which has Combination as its purpose can be used for the public transportation catalog.
7. Finally, in the Buffer Times section, the minimum times before and after the Travel as well as the maximum wait time can be defined. This can be filtered by time range too, by clicking in +Time range:
Public transportation events will appear as a yellow contour box type in the Gantt chart, with a letter P inside, representing public transport travels. Click on it to find more route information.
Instead of using the current schedule as an internal catalog, a different external catalog could be used too (these are timeplans in the same project), with the option of filtering relevant routes too.
Relief cars
A relief car is when a driver moves from one place to the other using a vehicle assigned for that purpose.
To assign the right catalog, select Relief Car.
Click Add Preference.
Name the Duty Travel type and select the appropriate catalog, to assign it as the Relief Car Catalogue.
The Driven by relieved driver section defines whether the driver taking that trip is driving the vehicle:
If set to true, there will be options to choose whether the round trip is strongly preferred or preferred, the maximum relief cars, and the maximum unattended time and assign that time per stop.
4. Through the Relief car schedule we can define a Daily fixed cost for the relief cars, the Distance unit cost for the vehicle, the Maximum passengers that the vehicle can have, the Maximum wait time that a driver can wait in order to be grouped with other drivers and if there should be a minimum layover time before a car heads out of the depot again. Round trip grouping is required, to ensure that round trips are operated by the same relief car.
Relief car events will appear as a yellow contour box type in the Gantt chart, with a R inside, to represent the relief car travels. Click on it to find more route information.
If your product package includes the optimization engine, you can optimize the schedule after adding relief car trips to create a separate relief car schedule.
To do that use the Optimize relief vehicles toggle and hit Optimize.
This will create a new tab for the relief car schedule, in the top right corner:
To include the relief cars as a bus service, this tab can be considered a base plan for it, and the trips can be inputted in the timeplan and then included in the schedule.
Other
Other refers to the general time allocated for travel that isn’t walking or taking a relief car. E.g. Driver travels between relief and duty points via ride-hailing and high-frequency public transportation. To add this type of travel, select Other:
Click Add Preference.
Name the Duty Travel type and select the appropriate catalog: