ARL e-Schedule platform allows transport companies publish online their own schedules and schedules from carriers they use. The platform offers various ways of building and publishing schedules for transport networks. Let's outline the major features of the platform.
Building schedules
Service points. The first step in building your own schedule is to list the service points in your transport network. These could be cities, pick-up points, any named locations which are known to your clients.
Services. A service combines certain service points for future linking by corridors. There could be one-way services and circular ones.
Rotations. Each service should have at least one rotation defined. Rotation is a sequence of service points visited by transport vehicle. Rotations can follow some time pattern and can be daily, weekly, etc.
Legs. Every leg within a rotation should have its own schedule for arrival, departure and pick-up/availability times.
Corridors. Once all service points are connected and timing is defined it is time to set the actual transport corridors out of all possible combinations we would like to be visible to your clients.
Last step is to publish the schedule on your website by embedding a small HTML code and watch the schedule requests log in the back office of the platform.
Importing schedules
This feature is made for the companies which utilize carriers transport, e.g. forwarding companies. If there is a carrier schedule available in e-Schedule, then it can be reused and published as forwarder's own with maybe different pickup and delivery cut-offs. All service points, rotations, legs and corridors definitions will be imported automatically. The forwarder can always limit the offering from the carrier by deselecting those corridors which he doesn't want to offer. The schedule from the carrier will stay updated automatically.
Extra features
Pick-up and delivery points. If your company offers door-to-door service then you would need to define all possible areas or points from where you can pick-up the cargo. So you can define all neighbour cities or regions with appropriate transit times and connect them to service points in your schedule. Same goes for the delivery points. All these connected points and areas will be visible in the schedule request form.
Linked points. What if you have a local regular connection from one of your own or imported service points to some neighbour locations? You can define these linked points with their own transit times for import/export flow and let them be visible in the public schedule wizard.
