Navigation is a module you can employ on your mobile data terminals (MDTs) that guides your drivers from bus stop to bus stop with mapped, written, and audible turn-by-turn directions.
A typical Navigation instruction screen looks like this on an MDT:
To see how Navigation more specifically works on the MDTs, you can download this drivers' aid: Using Navigation. This PDF describes how to use Navigation step by step, and Transportation departments often print this out to give to their drivers (along with the other handouts available in the article MDT Handouts).
Within CalAmp K-12, you can view how well your routing system map's data has been integrated with the software on the Navigation screen as follows:
- Click
>> Planned vs. Actual by Stop.
The PvA by Stop launch screen will appear.
- Check the Nav Match % column. This shows the percentage of waypoints from your route planning system that are good matches with CalAmp K-12's Navigation waypoints — in other words, how well the paths your route planner defined for your buses for each itinerary have been imported into the software.
Note: A waypoint is one spot on the route — that is, one point along the way. Multiple connected waypoints determine the path your bus will take.
If the waypoints imported from your routing system match 80% or more of the waypoints in the route that Navigation has mapped, the import is considered a success.
Note: If the match percentages are lower than 80%, you can improve them by following the steps in Generating New Navigation Waypoints. - To view a vehicle's itinerary path matchup more specifically, click
in its row. (You can scroll to the route you want in the list or search for it by using the column filter, as shown in Sorting and Filtering Column Data.)
The Navigation screen for that vehicle/itinerary will appear.
- Click the Routes drop-down arrow.
The Routes panel will appear.
- Expand the route containing the tier you want to view.
- Select the check box of the tier.
- Click Show Navigation.
Path lines will appear on the map; the blue line is the route as it was planned by your route planning system, and the green one is the path on the MDT (the directions to the stops your driver follows on the bus).
Note: CalAmp K-12 refers to these as polylines, which simply means a line that consists of two or more connected line segments.
The stops will be numbered sequentially on both the map and grid. On the map, the blue icons represent the planned stops, and the green icons are the MDT stops.
- At the top of the map, you can deselect MDT under Polylines to no longer see its path on the map; likewise, you can deselect Imported to hide its line.
- To the right of the Polylines options, you can select MDT under Waypoints to show the MDTs' waypoints on the map, which will appear in green.
Selecting Imported under Waypoints will show your route planner's plotted points in blue.
- You can click a stop's row in the grid to zoom in on it on the map.
- You can right-click a stop on the map for the following options:
