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

	Add	Create a new pattern
	Duplicate	Create a copy of the selected pattern(s)
	Export	Export pattern as GeoJSON, Shapefile or KML
	Merge	Merge multiple patterns, selecting an inbound and outbound pattern
	Split	Split a single pattern in two, associating the new pattern with outbound, inbound or both
	Reverse	Swaps inbound or outbound directions
	Join	Create new pattern by concatenating two selected patterns into a longer single pattern
	Delete	Remove selected pattern

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.

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.

Pattern troubleshooting