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Relief timing refers to the attended or unattended layovers and when do you allow drivers to be relieved during those attended or unattended layovers. With the types of relief timing you can define when the relief happens in the layover between two trips.
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In the layover between trips you define when the relief should happen. With the relief timing on Arrival, the relief is on arrival of the trip on the left side (purple trip) between the two trips. The two up and down arrows signify that one driver boards the bus and the other is relieving themselves off from the bus respectively as shown below:

The grey line signifies that the vehicle is being attended for the duration of this layover between the two service trips.

With this type of relief timing, when one driver relieves the other, it has many benefits. When one driver arrives at the end of the previous trip (up arrow and purple trip) it gives them time to set up the bus for the next trip. Moreover, it also allows more time for the driver that is relieved (down arrow in the purple trip) in case they are late for the previous trip.
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This is very similar to the relief on Arrival where you can define that the relief happens right before the departure of the next trip. This is a less common use case but is available to be utilised. The vehicle in this case as well is fully attended as shown below:

With this type of relief, one driver relieves themself on arrival
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and the next driver onboards the vehicle on departure.
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Therefore, in between those times the vehicle is unattended as shown below:
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With this type of relief you can define the relief to be x minutes or less before departure, depending on what time you define. If the relief time you have defined is bigger than the layover itself, the system will automatically apply the maximum layover time to the relief. For example, if you define 5 minutes of relief before departure but the layover itself is 3 mins the system will automatically apply 3 mins of relief time. The rule therefore is 5 minutes or less if the layover is shorter than the defined time.

With this type of relief the relieved driver will get off the bus halfway through the layover, and the relieving driver will get on the bus at the same time. For example, if the duration of the layover is t = 10 minutes, the relief will happen at 5 minutes (t/2).
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With this type of relief, the relieved driver will get off a few minutes after arrival and the next driver will board on departure. As shown below, the bus is attended x minutes after arrival but not for the time of layover from the relief till departure. This is equivalent to unloading time where the relieved driver gets a few minutes to relieve themselves.

With this type of relief, the relieved driver will get off immediately on arrival where the next driver will board a few minutes before departure. As shown below, the bus is attended x minutes after the boarding of the next driver, but not for the time of layover from arrival till the boarding of the next driver:

This is equivalent to loading time where the next driver will get a few minutes before departure of the trip to load passengers.