The ParaCutter User Guide explains general runcutting concepts and is intended for schedulers, dispatchers, and other transit staff responsible for determining and scheduling vehicle and driver requirements.

ParaCutter screens are similar in content elements and layout.

Specific context properties apply when using the Matcru algorithm with ParaCutter.

If you step away from your computer to do something else for some time, a message may appear asking you to log on again.

Prospector allows you to create projects, which are investigations into past supply and demand patterns.

Prospector allows you to create a project, which is an investigation into past supply and demand patterns.

Specific fields and options are available on the Info step.

Prospector allows you to make adjustments for runs that may have been operated unnecessarily in the past.

Prospector also allows adjustments to be made for insufficient service, as identified by vehicles operating late.

The goal of Prospector is to present the information in a way that allows users to select a representative day.

The following graphic shows the Vehicles step of Manage Rules.

The Shifts dialog box allows you to define the allowable parameters of each type of driver shift that you are allowed to put on the street.

You can search for existing Runcutter Jobs.

Provide the Runcutter Jobs information in the appropriate fields as needed.

When running a job, optimization criteria must be specified.

ParaCutter allows you to tailor your service to differing needs for each day of the week.

Runcuts are performed in Manage Runcutter Jobs.

After a job is completed, the Job Status field in the Select step shows Done.

If you are satisfied with the solution, click Import in the Navigation bar.

In addition to importing new runs through matching, you can also delete or remove older existing PASS runs.

You can assign providers to specific runs.

Before importing the new runs, select a run category.

One of the steps in using Weekly Plans is to combine daily shifts into weekly work on which drivers can bid.

The Select step in Manage Runcutter Weekly Plans behaves like the Select steps in Manage Prospector and Manage Runcutter Jobs.

After creating a new plan, you can fill it with runs from various runcut solutions.

The Match Runs step allows you to assign run names based on matching start and end times to existing PASS runs with the same logic used in Manage Runcutter Jobs.

Specific options are available when matching runs.

The Build Weeks step allows you to show and edit selected runs in a worksheet grid.

As you edit runs, you may want to review how the planned service stacks up against the original planning baseline assumptions.

Once the runs have all been edited and matched to produce runs of the same name, start time, and end time throughout the week, as appropriate, you are ready to import these runs back into PASS.

If the Match Attributes check box is selected, then any time a ParaCutter run name matches an existing pararun name from the selected collection (by run category or effective date), the new run is assigned specific attributes of the reference run.

The Import Plan step allows you to terminate a group of existing pararuns at the same time that new ones are imported.

In addition to creating pararuns, you may also be concerned with assembling a weekly roster that drivers can pick.

You can assign drivers to specific runs.

When viewing and creating reports in Report Designer, there are multiple steps in the Navigation bar that are used to customize the various parts of a report.

You can upload pre-configured Crystal Reports into the system.

Parameters can be added by extracting them from the Crystal Report.

Change specific report parameters as needed.

You can extract parameters from a Crystal Report to replace the current parameters.

Use the Parameter Layout step to arrange and customize the parameters shown in Report Designer options when running a report.

After setting the parameters for your Crystal and SQL reports, you must validate the input parameters (validation stage) and prepare temporary data (setup stage).

Although the Save button is available in other steps, you must save the report in the Save and Test step before testing and finalizing it.

The Running step is used to verify the available fields and their appearance and to confirm that the report output shows the requested information.

Both user-defined and system reports can be copied and modified to create a new, customized report.

Only user-defined reports can be edited.

Only user-defined reports, which are identified by a green check mark in the report's User column in the Select step, can be deleted.

What services should I outsource?

How do I make some of my runs have the same start and end times every day?

How do I make some of my runs have specific start and end times?

How do I combine runs that operate every week day with day-specific runs?

Prospector has an option to exclude exception days.