A route is either run or it is not.
Live position is the easy half. The half that settles arguments is the one that says which stops were made, in what order, and how long the vehicle actually stood at each of them.
The stop that eats the morning.
Every bar is time the vehicle spent standing still. The dashed line is the dwell it was given. Ring Road has run three minutes over for four days, which is a timetable that needs redrawing rather than a driver who needs a word.
Five vehicles. Four of them moved.
The vehicle that never left the yard is the one worth knowing about, and it is the one no live map draws attention to, because nothing about it moved.
What a live dot does not answer.
Did the route actually run?
Stops made, stops missed, and the order they were made in. A route that finished on paper and stopped at six of eight in fact looks different by lunchtime rather than at month end.
How long did it stand there?
Dwell at every stop against the dwell it was given. The same stop running four minutes long four days running is a schedule problem, not a driver problem.
When did it leave the depot?
Out and back, per vehicle, per day, including the one that never left.
Where did the day go?
Distance run, time idle, and time spent off the route it was given, on the same page.
Where was this vehicle at three in the afternoon?
Play the day back. A live dot answers today. A record answers the question that arrives on Thursday about last Monday.
Kept long enough to be worth having.
Most vehicle tracking is very good at the last ten minutes and useless about last month. The questions that cost money are almost always about a day that has already gone.
Stops made and missed, in the order they happened.
Time standing at each stop, against the planned dwell.
Out and back, per vehicle, per day.
Run, idle and off route, separated rather than totalled.
Any vehicle, any day, replayed at the speed you want.
Did not leave, returned early, went somewhere it was not sent.
Runs on whatever is already fitted.
The unit already fitted in the cab, if it will speak to anything. A tag at the stop or the gate where a position alone will not tell you whether the door opened. Nothing gets ripped out for the sake of it.
Put one route on it.
One route, two weeks. If dwell and completion tell you nothing you did not already know, that is a cheap answer to have.
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