Summary
A bus run has a driver, a vehicle and a number of bookings.
Bookings are grouped together on a bus run into “Legs” - all in the same direction to or from a destination
Some destinations are linked (eg International Airport / Domestic Airport) when grouping
A few days before
Puts together the vehicles and drivers into runs
Use the Driver Roster to mark a driver as not available
Vehicles Scheduled servicing can make a vehicle not available
Delegates Private Vehicle bookings
Assigns bookings to runs (Planning Status)
Right click on a booking to view possible runs
Same pickup and same direction are at the top
Runs with a leg in the same direction are offered
Runs with no leg offer to create a leg
Adjust times on the booking if required
The day before
Review bookings and runs
Move from PLANNING to PLAN status
Send confirmation emails to all travellers
On the day
Bookings will continue to be created and will need to be added to runs by the planner
Drivers will
start their run, mark bookings onboard and offboard
may move bookings to their run
if a passenger gets onto a different bus to the one scheduled
The run Planner
Creating Bus Runs
Select the date > then create bus runs
Delegations to others
When a booking requires a private vehicle - it will be delegated to others - the right click will indicate
Assigning Shuttle Bookings to Runs
Right click on a booking to be shown possible runs
Un-tick “Hide allocated/delegated Bookings” to view bookings already assigned to runs have have the same right click option to move them to other runs