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Home About Rostering Rostering is the process of creating the weekly work for all services in a division.
About Automatic Rostering Automatic rostering refers to the use of the functions of FX on the Auto tab to help you optimize and combine On days, create Off days and improve rosters.
What's New in This Edition The following changes and additional features have been documented in this version 21 edition of this FX guide:
About FX Trapeze4 Fixed Route (FX) is a powerful software application for fully automated scheduling, routing, runcutting and rostering.
About Properties Properties are used to determine settings for FX as they relate to the general workstation, the behavior of the map, or specific task screens.
About Ancillary Data Ancillary data defines the foundation for the schedule such as Sign-up Periods, Divisions, Garages, Services/Service Groups and your Lines/Line Groups. Ancillary data is information that tells FX what specific conditions and information are applicable for your transit site.
About Geocoding Geocoding a point assigns it precise longitude and latitude values in the system.
About the System Map The system map provides a geographical representation of your service area.
About Google Maps FX supports the use of Google Maps™ on some screens. You can choose to view the Google Map instead of the system map on these screens:
About Exceptions Exceptions apply to trips that operate under special conditions.
About Comments Comments are notes or remarks often included in the trip schedule to inform or instruct the operators on matters associated with their trips.
About Bus Stops Stop records are created mainly through the Bus Stops screen.
About Route Definition In addition to setting up the required ancillary data, another important component you have to complete before you can build your trips is route definition.
About Trip Building Trip building refers to the process of building schedules that show the times that vehicles are expected to arrive or depart from identified locations along a route. It is performed after determining the routes, node and stop patterns.
About Blocking Blocking is the process of linking or hooking a series of trips in a chronological sequence to form blocks.
About Runcutting Runcutting is the process of developing or cutting runs from a group of vehicle blocks.
About Runcutting Analysis and Improvement After you have cut your runs, it is advised to analyze them to see if you can make them better.
About Rostering Rostering is the process of creating the weekly work for all services in a division.
Understanding the Rostering Screen You can create weekly work for all services in a division using the Rostering screen.
Loading Runs from Runcutting If no runs have been loaded when you open the Rostering screen, the left section of the screen is empty. Use the Load Runs feature to load the unpicked runs from your Runcutting screen.
Selecting Grid Display Options The check boxes you select in the Display Options frame determine the type of data that you see in the Roster grid. You can select the types of data you want to appear in the Roster grids.
About Sorting the Rostering Data Change the display order of the items in the Roster grids in the Order By frame of the Display tab.
Rostering Data Filters The Filters frame on the Display tab is used after you create rosters.
Preparing for Rostering FX offers two approaches to rostering: Automatic and Manual. You can apply just one approach or use both approaches based on what best suits your requirements.
About Automatic Rostering Automatic rostering refers to the use of the functions of FX on the Auto tab to help you optimize and combine On days, create Off days and improve rosters.
Choosing Rosters Shown on Screen You can filter and organize rosters based on the type of view you select.
Checking Your Off-Day Statistics Off Day Statistics provides you with a complete summary of the assigned and unassigned work in rosters. Off days are the days that operators are scheduled to take time off from work.
Combining On Days Optimally On Days refer to the days that operators are scheduled to work. Combining them optimally means that they are put together in the most efficient way, for example, by arranging them to occur consecutively.
About Defining Penalties Penalties applied to create rosters are defined in the Penalties dialog box, which is opened from the Optimize On frame.
Creating Rosters Based on Off Days The Create Off Days frame on the Auto tab allows you to create 5-day or 4-day rosters depending on what your transit site uses.
Improving Rosters After automatic rostering is complete, you can develop more cost efficient rosters.
About Manual Rostering Manual rostering provides you greater control of rostering solutions compared to the automatic approach.
About Roster Costing Rules The costing features such as the costing constants and union contract used in Runcutting are similar to those in Rostering.
Saving Rosters You can save a rostering solution to a file.
Loading Rosters You can load rosters from the file using the options provided.
Saving Roster Scenarios Apply the Roster Scenarios function when you require different rosters for specific time periods, for example, during holidays. The rosters are saved into the database instead of into a file.
Loading Roster Scenarios You can load and remove roster scenarios in the Roster Scenarios dialog box.
Deleting Roster Scenarios This removes rosters from the scenario dialog box.
Re-sorting and Renumbering Rosters There are several options to re-sort and renumber rosters.
Finding Rosters and Other Data You can search for roster and other data using the Find feature.
Adding Extra Work Extra work may involve cleaning or maintenance duties to help complete a weekly roster. You can add extra non-runcut work to a roster.
Printing from the Rostering Screen You can print the roster data on the grid.
About FX Tools FX Tools is a group of tools in FX that helps automate the scheduling processes.
About Extended FX Data Tool The Extended FX Data tool is used for batch processing data elements by line, service or some other generic data that go beyond the traditional scheduling data components at the node level.
About Supplementary Data Definition Supplementary Data (Supp Data) is usually set up during the FX installation. The fields are used to store additional data such as:
About Wizards Wizards are tools that can provide useful information while working in the Trapeze workstation.
About Keystroke Shortcuts Using keyboard shortcuts is an alternative to using the mouse to access commonly used screens and commands in FX.
About Automatic Rostering
Automatic rostering refers to the use of the functions of FX on the Auto tab to help
you optimize and combine On days, create Off days and improve rosters.
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