Trip Planning

Introduction

Trip planning can be used for both the pre-planning of trips, and the execution of that plan. A planner will often be responsible for creating the orders and then putting these orders onto trips. Fixed routes will often automate part of this job for users, leaving only a few orders to be assigned to trips up manually using the skill of the planner. There is functionality within trip planning that will aid and guide the planner to making an informed decision.

For instance, the ‘point to point’ table held in the background of MTS holds details of travel times and mileages which will illustrate to the planner the planned arrival and depart times for there trips. This will then work in conjunction with the times populated on the order to show whether the deliveries will be made on time or not. MTS will also flag whether the planner is trying to create a trip that exceeds the trailer capacity of the vehicle type that has been allocated to this trip. Further to this, MTS can tell the planner if the trip exceeds a pre-set drive or duty time for each driver.

The Transport operator will then be able to allocate resources to the trips, and enter actual trip times and pallets delivered after the driver has returned from their journey.

There are four main sections to the trip planning screen.