About Extracting Trips for Hand-Held Checking

If you are using hand-held computers to perform ride checks or point checks, it is important to set up trip groups during the extraction process.

Trip groups are created for a ride check or point check extraction to group together the trips that will be checked using hand-held computers. Ideally, trips in a trip group share a common element that allows a check to be performed as efficiently as possible. Trips in a trip group may belong to a single block, occur at similar times in the day or occur within a single day of the week. The way you group your trips depends on your site requirements. You can create up to 100 trip groups for a ride check or point check extraction.

Organizing trips into trip groups is a good way of keeping track of the checks to be performed for each hand-held computer download. By grouping them together by time or block, checkers can easily recognize the work assigned to them and checks can be performed efficiently.