Overview
Use the Vehicle Utilization Drill though report to drill down into route capacity problems. You may review this data using three different menus to visualize and identify any issues. Use the menu to make your selections:
How This Report Helps Your Agency
Use this report to assist in determining if vehicle size per route matches ridership trend needs for that route, to help optimize vehicle cycles for your agency, and to ensure available capacity matches ridership needs for the service.
Initially, the report displays a list of routes over the entire date range that the filter pane specifies. Use the table to find routes that are overcapacity the most frequently using the follow three metrics:
- Running time over capacity
- Number of trips over seating capacity
- Number of trips over total capacity
Vehicle Drill Through
Vehicle Drill Through: Use this route level report to review each routes ridership capacity and the trips scheduled for the period of time selected.
Press the plus sign to expand details to review all scheduled trips for the route.
Or press the map icon to review the data on a map. Use the 'time line' below the report to view capacity activity for different hours of the day. Color coding indicates vehicle capacity. Use the legend at the top right of the report to determine issues.
Vehicle Utilization KPIs: review vehicle capacities by time of day and compare these to over time ( last 30 days). The bars also inform you about passenger traffic at peak times.
Column Sorting
Because these tables can be quite long, a good practice is to start your analysis by clicking a column heading to sort the table by that column, to quickly view the data you need most. Multiple clicks toggle between ascending and descending sort orders. For example, the table below is sorted to prioritize trips that were over capacity:
Vehicle Boards & Alights Review
In this table, click a specific trip to display the Farebox and APC Analysis report for that trip, which displays the boards and alights for passengers by date.
Open a hyperlink for a trip to review APCs for the trip. Review passenger board and alight values in a graph by simply hovering over each bar, or press the Toggle Chart Data button to get numeric values in a table.
Toggle Chart Data:
Seeing large discrepancies in boards and alights? Review vehicle level APC counts to ensure sensors are calibrated, fully connected and functioning as expected. Use the View By dropdown menu and filter on vehicle: