What the module can do
- Display the live position of vehicles (colour-coded map markers by status) and an overview of services in progress.
- Service progress - for a selected service, the stop passings are shown with the timetable time, the actual entry and exit and the delay. Available both on the web and in EDISONKA.
- Shift progress - the shift the vehicle is driving: for regional bus services the activities from the transport plan, for city transport the journeys, breaks and transfers of the shift document. Tap a journey to open its stops. On the web you open it with the Shift progress button in the vehicle’s bubble on the map or in the vehicle or service detail, in EDISONKA with the link on the Vehicle Location and Service progress screens. Everyone with Dispatching can see it.
- Shift progress is available once your carrier has an updated EDISON. For a vehicle whose shift EDISON does not find, the button is not shown.
- Send a message to the driver in the vehicle - to up to 50 vehicles at once, with a text of at most 500 characters. Below the form is a Recently sent section showing what was sent, when, and whether it succeeded. If the message cannot be delivered - the vehicle has no on-board computer, it does not belong to your depot, or the message server is not responding - the app tells you straight away instead of claiming it was sent.
- Display vehicle occupancy.
- Restrict the display to a selected workplace.
- Sorting by plate number or driver name, full-text search.
- Fleet number (the number the company gave the vehicle) - dispatchers know the vehicles by it rather than by the plate, so it is shown everywhere the vehicle appears: on the map next to the vehicle and in its bubble as Plate/Fleet no., on the web also as a column of its own in the vehicle and service lists (you can sort by it), and in EDISONKA next to the plate on the card. It is in the vehicle detail and the service progress too. You can search by the plate as well as by the fleet number. A vehicle with no fleet number in the ERP system shows only its plate.
- Vehicles above the delay threshold are also watched by the Delayed vehicles dashboard widget.
- Available vehicles - vehicles that have nothing in the transport plan today and do not transmit have the Available state. On the web you show them with the Include available vehicles filter, in EDISONKA with the switch above the Vehicles list. A vehicle that has never transmitted has no position and is only in the list. The feature is available once your carrier has an updated EDISON.
- Vehicle positions and stop passings are supplied by the ERP system from the on-board computers in the vehicles.
Reports
The operating history dispatchers know from EDISON. Open it with the Reports button in the dispatching toolbar; it is available on the web only.
- Vehicle positions - pick a vehicle and a day. The time from and to is prefilled to the whole day and you can narrow it. Every position the vehicle reported that day is listed with its time and coordinates. The whole route is on the map on the right.
- Stop passages - pick a day, optionally a line, service, vehicle and time. The stops of the services are listed with the timetable time, the actual entry and exit, the dwell time, the delay, the occupancy and the details from the transport plan (driver, personnel number, duty, document). Select a row and the map shows the route of that service together with its stops.
- Driver and Driver from plan are two columns. They differ when someone other than the planned driver ran the service.
- Deviation over (min) lists only the stops where the actual departure differed from the timetable by more minutes than you enter.
- On the map you can turn on the passage times, the line stops and the stop names. Drag the divider between the table and the map to set their widths.
- Download the result with the Export to Excel button.
- One report returns at most 5,000 rows. If more do not fit, the app says so and the filter needs narrowing.
Differences between the phone and the web
- EDISONKA offers the Map, Vehicles and Services views and a separate Vehicle Location screen with a map.
- The web additionally offers the Map / List / Lines / All views, automatic refresh and eight filters: Search, Vehicle states, Depot, Workplace, Vehicle label (Plate / Line-Service / Duty / Icon only), Service states and the Active only / Incl. inactive and Without available / Incl. available switches.
Carrier settings
How often dispatching refreshes itself, what gets highlighted and whether messages can be sent is set by your carrier. You switch the view yourself and the browser remembers your choice.
- Automatic refresh (s) - how often vehicle positions and statuses are reloaded. Empty = 30 s.
- Delay that is highlighted (min) - from how many minutes a delay is shown in red and the vehicle appears in the dashboard widget. Empty = 5 min, 0 = every delay.
- Allow messages to vehicles - switched on by default; when switched off, the send button is not offered at all. Sending goes through the Mikroelektronika and Telmax message servers your carrier has configured in its dispatching; without them nothing is sent even when this is switched on.