Building Trips on Run Time Interval or Trip Count

The patterns and run times you have created provide you with the data to build your trips.

If you are in multi-agency mode and you do not select a service when setting the context for the Trip Building screen, the Edit button is not activated. This prevents the creation of trips with incorrect service.
  1. On the Trips tab, make sure your context is set to include the patterns for which you want to create trips.
  2. Click the Edit button: Edit button

    The Edit dialog box appears.

  3. Select the Build tab.
    By default, the line field shows the selected line in context.
    Build tab
  4. In the appropriate drop-down lists, select the Direction, Pattern, and Node options that you want to use.
  5. To use run time interval, type a start time in the From field.
  6. To use run time interval, type the end time of the interval in the To field.
  7. In the Hdwy (Headway) field, type what you have determined as the frequency of trips in minutes.
  8. Optional: To build trips using a runtime interval, leave the Count field blank.
  9. To use trip count, type values in the From and Hdwy fields (see steps 5 and 7). In the Count field, type the number of trips that you require for the run time interval.
  10. Click Apply.
    The new trips appear on the Trips tab and the number of trips built appears in the Built field. If you entered a value which exceeds the number of trips that can be accommodated within the selected interval, a message appears warning you that not all trips were built.
  11. Repeat the appropriate steps depending on how you want to build your trips for the other patterns.
    All the trips built are less than or equal to (<=) the To time. This means that all trips that are built occur before the to time you entered.
  12. Click Close.
  13. Optional: To prevent changes being made on the trips built, apply the Freeze option.
    The Frz column displays check marks for the selected trips that have been frozen.