Audience: Transportation admins and staff
Purpose: Automatically optimize stop order and travel paths for efficiency.
Steps
- Go to Routes.
- Open a route.
- Expand the trip you'd like to optimize.
- Click Optimize from the toolbar. This looks like a refresh symbol with two arrows in a circle.
- Select the From (start) and To (end) stop for the optimization.
- Click Optimize.
- Review results on the map and confirm.
- After optimizing stops, you will want to either manually adjust the stop times or recalculate stop times. Note the red indicator next to the stop times that were moved indicating that changes need to be made.
- To recalculate the stop times, click on the Operations sub-menu and select Recalculate stop times.
- Select the trip to recalculate. In this example we do not need to adjust the other items on this screen. Leaving the defaults will recalculate the stop times based on the attributes of this trip. Click on the Recalculate button.
Tips
- Optimization recalculates sequence—review before saving.
- Use custom rules for constraints (max students, ride time, or capacity).
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