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How to set up a Complex Route/Trip in IMS Voyager TransitAs an example, let’s look at the schedule of the train route #105 “London – Milan”. It has 3 stops: London (start station), Paris and Milan (end station).
To make this schedule work, we need to do the following steps. Step 1. Choose the tab “Transit” in the menu on the top of the page and then choose “Add category” in the Trip menu on the left. Now you can see following:
Here you create a category that is named after the route name: “ #105 London – Milan” and also give it a short name and click “Save”. In this category you will store all the trips that are subject to the main route “London – Milan”.
Step 2. To add all the cities (stops) on the route you choose “Add destination” tab in the Trip menu. Now you can see following:
Here you add all the stops/ stations that you have on the route. In our case these are London, Paris and Milan. Step 3. Now when you have input all the stations and the main route (category), you can proceed to the next step – making trips* (choose “Add trip” in the Trip menu). *The main route London – Milan has 3 stops, that’s why it comprises of 3 different trips. This means that person travelling on this route can make 3 different trips using this train: London – Paris, Paris – Milan and London – Milan. All the trips must be added separately to eliminate the double-booking of the seats ( the seat that is booked on the trip “London-Milan” is made unavailable for “London-Paris” trip).
As you can see, on this step you add all the information about the trip: the name of the trip (see below), the SKU (short name that must be unique), choose the category which this trip refers to. Also you input such trip items as Destination ( the direction on which is going), End location and Start location. The tick boxes with the names of the week allow you to choose the days on which the trip is available. All the other fields are filled in if necessary.
Having input all the information about the trip, you click “Save” and proceed to the following page with the trip summary:
Here you click on the name of the trip you’ve just added and go back to the Add trip page in order to add the start times (according to the schedule mentioned in the beginning).
After clicking “add start times” you get to the page that you can see above and input all the start times for this trip (according to the Start station) one after another. This is how the Trip information page looks after you have added start times:
Here you click “Save” and add all the other trips (in this case London – Paris and Paris – Milan)in the same way. When all the trips for the main route are added, you can proceed to the next step – Transit setup. Step 4. “Transit setup” tool is used for those trips that have more than 2 stations: start station and end station. There’s no need to use “Transit setup” for those trips that are non-stop (have only start station and end station). In our case, trips “London-Paris” and “Paris-Milan” don’t need Transit setup. Only “London – Milan” trip needs the Transit setup, because it has a stop in Paris. Why “Transit setup” tool is necessary for trips that have more than 2 stops? According to schedule the train leaves the start station 3 times a day – at 08.00, 15.00 and 20.00, - and passes Paris at 11.00, 18.00 and 23.00. Transit setup is made for the system to make connection between those times. When train leaves London at 08.00, it passes Paris at 11.00, not at 18.00 or 23.00. In our case, London – Milan trip has so called “internal trips”. When you choose “Transit setup” from the Trip menu, you can see the list of all trips you’ve added before.
Here you choose the trip “London – Milan” and see the following:
Here you choose Trip start time (start time for London-Milan trip), then internal trip (here we have 2 internal trips because of the stop in Paris), and then the Internal trip time (start time for the internal trip that corresponds the main trip start time):
At the end the Transit setup table for London-Milan trip looks as following:
Important notes: 1. If the internal trip has the same start station as the main trip (here it’s London), then it has the same start times (see the table). 2. There’s a useful tool that can be used to avoid the extra work – “Copy transit route”. If you have to make transit setup for 2 trips “A-C” and “A-D” ( when train/ bus/etc goes through A-B-C-D), you can just make the “A-D” transit setup as it was described before. Then you click “Copy transit route”, choose “A-D” in “Copy route from” field and “A-C” in “Copy route to” field and click “Copy route” (see below). In Transit setup page for “A-C” that is now opened, you choose those internal trips that are unnecessary here (all the internal trips with station D and “A-C” internal trip, because main trip and internal trips should not be the same!) and delete them.
Step 5. After making time connections with the help of Transit setup tool, you can do the last step – Create inventory. Here you make the trip available for booking, that’s why you create inventory for all trips on the main route (for those with Transit setup and for those without it). In “Create inventory” page you choose the trip that has to be made available for booking:
When you’ve chosen the trip (here we take London-Milan as an example, and London-Paris and Paris Milan have to be made too), you see following:
On this page you can see a kind of summary for the trip and a calendar to the left. Here you can also add price for the trip. After choosing/checking all the information on the trip, you click “Update inventory”:
And in the bottom you can see the information on every day of the period you’ve chosen, including number of seats booked and price for the seat. Contact webmaster@imscart.com with questions or problems with this set-up.
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