Extracting Trips for Hand-Held Checking

You can extract trips for checking in hand-held computers for either ride check or point check data.

  1. Perform one of the following steps:
    • Click Ridership > Extract Ride Checks by Trip or click the Extract Riding Checks by Trip button: Extract Riding Checks by Trip button.
    • Click Ridership > Extract Point Checks or click the Extract Point Checks button: Extract Point Checks button
    Depending on your selection, the Ride Check Trip Extract dialog box or Point Check Trip Extract dialog box appears.
  2. In the left column in the Trip Selection frame, select the trips that are to be grouped together, and then click the Add (>) button to move them to the Selected Trips column.
  3. In the Trip Groups frame, select a trip group, for example, Trip Group 1.
  4. In the Comment field, enter a comment (up to 14 characters) for the Trip Group. Typically, the comment is the date when the trip will be checked.
    The comment appears on the hand-held computer. The value set as the default is whatever is selected in the Trip Group field (for example, Trip Group 1) so that checkers can readily identify their work. You can also type your own comment.
  5. Repeat steps 2 to 4 and select all the trips that you want to include in the second trip group.
    The trips that you selected for the previous trip group (Trip Group 1) disappear from view but still exist in the system and are ready for downloading.
    Point Check Trip Extract dialog box
    Repeat the steps until you have created all the required trip groups.
  6. Click Save To File or Download to Hand-Held.
    A message appears asking you whether you want a new extract or to check the existing extracted trip. It may also include information on the trip group, the name of the checker, and a flag that a random check has been made on the trip.
  7. Click Done.

All the trip groups that you create are saved or downloaded in a TpRide.dat or TpPoint.dat file. When you download a ride check extraction, the new TpRide.dat file overwrites any existing ones on the hand-held computer. Similarly, all existing trip groups on the TpRide.dat file are replaced with new ones. The old file together with any check data that has been recorded is deleted.