Patterns

Patterns belong to routes, and define the physical path along which a vehicle travels. The pattern is created with an outbound, and optionally inbound, definition.

Creating patterns

1. Click the name of the route that you wish to edit in the services tool panel
2. Navigate to the tab of the newly opened route panel
3. Click to create a new pattern with the default name 'Pattern A'
4. Click to begin the drawing process.
5. Click to select an existing station, or on any point on the map to create a new station.
6. Continue adding stops until you have connected the final stop
7. If the route has an inbound direction, switch to the inbound tab to begin drawing the reverse
8. Once finished drawing the relevant directions, click

Pattern Operations

Pattern Joining

 

Patterns can be joined with the button in the patterns tab of the your chosen route.

From here, select the two patterns that you would like to join and then select the starting outbound pattern as the pattern that you would like your new, joined pattern to begin with.

Changes made by joining patterns will be automatically updated on the trips tab.

Merging Patterns

Merging patterns allows you to create a new pattern with inbound and outbound definitions by selecting the inbound and outbound from 2 existing patterns.

In this example, pattern A has 3 stops - all on outbound, and none on inbound.

Pattern B is running along the same stops in reverse:

Selecting the two patterns that we would like to merge and clicking Merge will open the merge modal.

We have now created a new pattern, Pattern C, with the outbound stops from Pattern A and the inbound stops from Pattern B.

Editing Station Type

By clicking the next to a station in your stations list, you can select its kind (station, depot or waypoint).

Unlike stations, waypoints do not cause vehicles to slow down and stop, and dwell times specified in your layer's transport layer properties will not be applied.

Path routing

Podaris can calculate the route of the path in one of three ways:

• Following the existing road network (Buses).
• Following Podaris-drawn infrastructure (Rail/Metro/Hyperloops).
• Following a set of manually defined coordinates.

When drawing a bus route, by default, the pattern will be solved using the existing road network. When using any other mode, the Podaris-drawn infrastructure is used.

In the case that you want to explicitly define a segment of the pattern, select when drawing to draw a line of coordinates for the pattern to follow.

In manual mode, you have the option to override the speed or duration of that segment.

As the underlying infrastructure changes, or stops on the pattern change, the pattern will update to find the new optimal path.

Understanding the pattern overview panel

Pattern direction symbols

Exploring patterns

Clicking on the number of stops on a pattern will expand a list of stops for that pattern. If the pattern contains both inbound and outbound stops, clicking a the Inbound Stops/Outbound Stops toggle button will alternate between them.

Clicking the button next to each stop's name will zoom into that stop of your map.

The stopwatch button on the pattern panel will display the average speed for the path segment between two stops:

These averages are calculated using maximum road speeds and historical traffic data.

Pattern troubleshooting

Pattern alerts will be displayed in both the Alert Manager and by clicking the Alerts button under a pattern in the patterns tab (found when clicking on a service in the Services Panel, see image below).