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Home 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 Fares Fares ancillary data is created and used in Trapeze INFO-Agent. Please contact your Trapeze Customer Care representative or refer to your INFO-Agent System Administrator Guide for more information.
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.
Adding Holidays Holidays is a General type of ancillary data shared by FX with other Trapeze applications. The Holidays ancillary data is used to identify days when the standard service is not operating due to a holiday.
Adding Garages Create garage records in FX in the Garages screen.
About Divisions A division is the geographic or revenue area served by a specific number of Full and/or Part-time Operators. It is common for smaller and medium-sized properties to have only one garage, and hence only one division.
About Lines and Line Groups Lines also called routes are fixed courses from an origin (node, stop, or timing point) to a destination (which also be a node, stop, or timing point).
About Services and Service Groups A service refers to the days of the week that your transit agency operates.
About Nodes Nodes are your timing points along a given route. Nodes are used and defined in the section on Route Definition .
Adding Accessibility Types Accessibility is used in categorizing vehicles on various routes and stops for purpose of generating itineraries and providing additional information in reports. Some examples of accessibility types include wheelchair accessible vehicles, bike rack vehicles, or ski rack vehicles.
Adding Points and Point Attributes Special points are locations that are more precisely located than stops and exist between stops in a pattern. When creating point records, you can add attributes, which are characteristics of the point, such as color and condition.
About Fares Fares ancillary data is created and used in Trapeze INFO-Agent. Please contact your Trapeze Customer Care representative or refer to your INFO-Agent System Administrator Guide for more information.
Adding Report Types You can create a report type that is different from the standard report types.
Adding Vehicle Types Vehicle Types ancillary data is used to create and categorize the different kinds of vehicles at your site.
Adding Agencies Each transit site whether a single agency or with multiple agencies must create Agency ancillary data before using FX.
Adding Sign-Up Periods Sign-up periods define the length of time over which a schedule applies. These are often seasonal.
Setting the Mode (Context) The Set Mode feature enables you to load the information for the agency, line, division, service, sign-up period, and exception combination for which you are performing FX tasks. This is also referred to as setting the context.
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.
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 Fares
Fares ancillary data is created and used in Trapeze INFO-Agent. Please contact your Trapeze Customer Care representative or refer to your INFO-Agent System Administrator Guide for more information.
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