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  1. Stops are defined - companies with addresses are flagged as stops
  2. Routes are defined - with stops, suburbs and Shuttle Destinations in sequence with timings
  3. Schedules are defined - times to start each Route multiple times per day
  4. Bookings look for Routes where the stop or the suburb is before the destination - providing pickup times for two possible Shuttles
  5. The driver portal understands Routes and the resulting start / stop of each trip

Route booking

The Route Booking uses a different booking screen

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Note

If the Stop has not been put on a route - then the system looks to see if the suburb is on any route before the chosen destination - if it is then it uses the suburb time from the route timing to indicate pickup time.

Bus Run Planning

The schedule indicates all the trips that each vehicle is expected to do each day.

To plan a day

Select a vehicle and a driver and copy a vehicle number from the schedule for the day.  

All planned routes will be created as trips for this vehicle and related bookings will be appended to the vehicle

Note any trips that require more seats that the vehicle capacity will be highlighted

These can be moved to another vehicle or split with another vehicle

Driver Portal

The Driver portal provides the driver

A list of the trips to do over the day

The pick ups / drop offs to do each trip

The ability to mark customers onboard / missed

The ability to pickup ad-hoc passengers

Configuration required

As per Ad-Hoc Shuttle Configuration

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