What are trips

The PTV Drive&Arrive expects already planned trips, regardless of whether they are from other planning systems or manually scheduled. A trip requires:

• at least one stop with coordinates, time of arrival, time of departure and service time at stop

• a vehicle profile

These trips can be:

• round trips (depot - stop - .... - stop - depot)

• one-way trip (A to B trip)

• trip where vehicle starts from a location other than depot (e.g. at home)

For this type it is not necessary to specify.

Please try to avoid trips that contain subsequent stops with the same coordinates. If you have a trip with the stops ABCCD, the ETA for the stop C would be calculated twice in the same tour. For a trip structure like ABCDC, this is fine. But for ABCCD, it may lead to misinterpreations although we would generate two SCEMIDs, because we interpret the stops as independent no matter whether they have the same co-ordinates.