Trip Building Properties

The Trip Building properties allow you to recalculate stop trips, set the run time mode and the data integrity check.

Property Definition
Auto Recalculate Stop Trips on Trip Change If set to Yes, the system automatically recalculates the stops trips after you have changed the trips manually, or applied any of the following Edit features:
  • Regen (regenerate)
  • Shift
  • Add
Check Integrity on Close If set to Yes, when you close the Trip Building screen, a message appears asking you if you want the system to run the FX Data Integrity Check tool. Click Yes.
Max Dist From To Node To End Of Plot The radius value that is used to ensure that the plot is plotted to completion.
Recalculate Stop Trips On Close If set to Yes, the system automatically recalculates the stops trips when you close the Trip Building screen.
Run time mode
The Run time mode is used to tell FX how running times are used when building trips. Choose one of the following options:
  • Fixed - When FX is building a trip, the run time record that the build node falls into is used for the whole trip.
  • Incremental - Instead of using the run time record for the whole trip, FX looks up the run time record for each of the times it is building. This smooths the transition from one time band to another.
  • Max Incremental - The same as Incremental, however, FX only changes the run time if it is greater than the run time of the previous time band.

Select Incremental or Max Incremental to activate the Regen function in the Trip Building screen.
Show Trip Inconsistencies If set to Yes, the node times on the Trips tab are shown in red when inconsistencies exist between them and run times on the Run Times tab.
Trip Building File Path Allows users to set the file path to where they want to save trips in XML files. To view the property in the Properties dialog box, click File Properties with the Trip Building screen open.

The following table shows an example of how the run times modes are applied. There are two time bands showing different run times for a route with four nodes. Sample 1 shows what would occur if the trip were to be built at Node A at 6:47 AM. Sample 2 shows the results if the trip were to start at Node A at 6:55 AM.

Table 1. Sample Runtime Modes
Run Time Node A Node B Node C Node D
6:00 AM - 7:00 AM - 10 5 7
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM - 15 10 6
Sample 1
Run Time Mode Node A Node B Node C Node D
Fixed 6:47 AM 6:57 AM 7:02 AM 7:09 AM
Incremental 6:47 AM 6:57 AM 7:02 AM 7:08 AM
Max Incremental 6:47 AM 6:57 AM 7:02 AM 7:09 AM
Sample 2
Run Time Mode Node A Node B Node C Node D
Fixed 6:55 AM 7:05 AM 7:10 AM 7:17 AM
Incremental 6:55 AM 7:05 AM 7:15 AM 7:21 AM
Max Incremental 6:55 AM 7:05 AM 7:15 AM 7:22 AM