Use this dashboard to assess scheduled revenue and nonrevenue service together with total adjusted service and total distance of completed segments. Identify the total number of trip samples and the percent of all valid trip samples. What is a valid trip sample? The trip was completed successfully, meaning the vehicle was able to service all stops on the schedule for that trip. Track trends by time, category, and routes; compare all the data to the last year’s data; assess if you are below or above the target and adjust targets accordingly.
This dashboard allows you to do the following:
- Identify vehicles with potential APC issues.
- Identify the amount of accepted/captured trip samples.
- Assess trips, capture rate, filter capture rate by route.
- Identify the coverage rate. Helps you ensure that you capture at least one trip from all service levels and times of day.
- Identify APTL - Average Passenger Trip Length.
The dashboard compares the metrics to target values over time, and by various groupings, including the following:
- Routes: Displays Capture Rate by routes.
- Period: Displays metrics by similar timeframes, such as day of the week, months, and fiscal years.
- Miles Category: Revenue/Nonrevenue miles scheduled, miles captured, miles adjusted.
- Hours Category: Revenue/Nonrevenue hours scheduled, hours captured, hours adjusted.
Click the global filter icon 
at the top to restrict data to specific Date, Mode of Service, Route, and Minimum APC Count for all panels in the dashboard.
Minimum APC Count - This is set to 450 by default. This threshold applies to the Vehicles with Accurate APCs widget on the dashboard. A vehicle must have a combined total of at least 450 boardings and alights to be included in the widget count. If a vehicle’s total APC count (boards + alights) is less than 450, it will not appear in the results. This minimum threshold can be adjusted as needed, particularly for smaller agencies that may record fewer APC transactions in a single day.
Click the information icon by a panel 
to learn about its metrics and how the system calculates them.
NTD Dashboard:
The Vehicles with Accurate APCs report shows the number of vehicles where boards and alights have a percent difference less than 10%.
The Accepted Trip Samples report shows the number of accepted trips from total trips within the set time frame, compares this percentage to last year, shows the set target and where the rate is respective of the target. Accepted trips are those that have been completed, haven’t missed stops, and when the agency doesn’t have an imbalance between boards and alights.
The APTL report shows the Average Passenger Trip Length captured within the set timeframe, compares this percentage to last year, and shows the set target and where the rate is respective of the target.
The Capture Rate report provides the capture rate of all sample trips of total trips within the set time frame, compares this percentage to last year, shows the set target and where the rate is respective of the target. The Coverage Rate report provides the same information only looks at unique trips.
The Coverage Rate report shows the percentage of trips covered for each block within the set timeframe, compares this percentage to last year, and shows the set target and where the rate is respective of the target.
The Capture Rate by Route report shows the percentage of accepted trip samples from the total number of scheduled trips, organized by route.
The Target: This is indicated by the set of blue triangles on the report. You can adjust the target by selecting the cog wheel located near the top right of each NTD card. Your target allows you to see how data capture is trending against your benchmark.
1. Press the cog wheel
2. Use the arrows in the pop up window to adjust the target up or down, based on your needs.
Scheduler
The Scheduler button 
allows the user to schedule this report to go out in an email to, for example, a management department at any necessary frequency.
Enter the recurrence (once, you need (daily, weekly, monthly), start time and date, email recipient/address, check the Enabled checkbox and click Save.
If the user schedules a report, the calendar values are saved in to the schedule and are adjusted by the difference between the current date and the date the schedule was made or updated. For example, if the user schedules a report to run a week from today, the system adds 7 days to the date range specified when the report was run.