Knowledge Base

Sometimes you need to get a detailed view of a specific route, and the Route Replay feature can do just that. This article is here to help you understand it and use it efficiently. For basic information on how to navigate the Routes tab, visit our Navigating Routes article.

Route Replay currently allows you to perform replays on routes from the current and previous day. By clicking into a route after the route has finished, the Route Replay view will automatically appear in the pop-up screen. You can also perform a Route Replay by clicking on the actions gear in the Route Summary page.

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Performing a Route Replay

The map shows the same stop and school locations as seen on the route details page, but teardrop shaped icons are now visible. These represent "AVL pings" and help us to piece together where the vehicle has traveled. AVL stands for 'automatic vehicle location', and is also known as a GPS ping. 

The GPS pings act as a bread crumb trail of where the bus has been. On the right hand side of the map is a chronological list of all of the GPS events. By clicking on a specific timestamp in the GPS event column, the map will zoom to the ping and will highlight it on the map. Door Open/Close GPS events are also listed in the column.

If a GPS arrival was captured at a stop, the accompanying data will fill in and the stop status will show as visited. If a GPS arrival was not captured at a stop, the stop status will stay blank.

There are several reasons why an arrival may not be captured. These reasons may be that the bus did not come to a stop within the geofence, the bus was driving too quickly through the geofence and an AVL ping was not captured, or the bus didn’t break the geofence for that stop.  Stop thresholds are also set for each stop at -10/+45 minutes, so an AVL will only be captured and applied to that stop if it’s within the designated threshold settings.

Once at the Route Replay page, you do have the option of ‘going back to the Routes Summary page. Just select the Back to Routes button at the top left of the pop up screen.