Optimize your runsheet routes

Increasing mobile patrol efficiency by optimizing your runsheet routes in Mobile Dispatch.

Overview

Runsheet route optimization takes all the patrol jobs assigned to a specific runsheet and calculates a recommended order for them to be completed by a mobile patrol user. 

Note: TrackTik doesn't enforce the order, so the mobile user can skip ahead if a patrol job takes longer than anticipated and there's another patrol job at a specific time. 

Before you start

Before you can optimize runsheets, you will need to do the following:

• Turn the Runsheet Route Optimization feature ON

Optimize your runsheet routes

To optimize your runsheet routes:

• Select Mobile Dispatch.
• Choose Zone Settings.
• Pick a zone from the Select a Zone drop-down menu
• Next to the runsheet you want to optimize, select Optimize.
• In the Choose Optimization Strategy drop-down menu, choose between two settings:
  
  • Try with the original provided time (Normally Faster) - This option takes the patrol jobs, calculates the distance and time between them, and creates a recommended route. However, it won't load balance or spread out the repeat patrols scheduled in the runsheet duration for the same site.
  • Split visits equally across time range (Normally more time) - The system will optimize the route by evenly distributing multiple patrols at the same sites through the runsheet's assigned time range.
• After you confirm the details, select Save this Sequence.

See also

• Creating a runsheet and understanding begin dates