Auto-planning

Crew the whole day
in one click.

Press Auto-assign and Transitour puts a vehicle and a driver on every booking in view — only pairings that are genuinely free, correctly licensed, inside your duty-hour caps and big enough for the group. Every choice comes with its reason in plain words, so the planner stays in charge.

The problem

Tomorrow's plan shouldn't take until tonight.

Crewing by hand means holding the whole fleet in your head: who is on leave, whose medical expires this week, which coach is in the garage, who is close to their weekly hours. Auto-planning holds all of it for you — and runs exactly the checks the dispatch board enforces when you assign by hand.

What you get
01

Only pairings that can run

The vehicle is free for the whole job, depot pull-out and pull-in included, in service and big enough. The driver is active, holds the right licence category (a D covers a D1), has licence, driver CPC and medical in date, and isn't on leave or outside their shift.

02

Duty-hour caps you set

Daily, weekly and fortnightly caps per company, overridable per driver — 9, 56 and 90 hours by default. Auto-planning never proposes a driver who would go over them.

03

Ranked like your best planner

Your first-choice driver for each vehicle, standing arrangements on recurring trips, the driver's usual coach, the right-sized vehicle, the shortest empty run from the depot, and hours spread fairly across the team.

04

Every choice explained

Each assignment carries its reason in the planner's own language — “first-choice driver for Coach 12”, “about 6 km of empty running from Depot South”. Skipped bookings say exactly what was missing.

05

Crewed the moment it's confirmed

Switch on automatic crewing and a booking gets its crew as soon as it is confirmed. Imported bookings are always left for you to review.

06

Pencil in before it's sold

Hold a provisional crew on a job the customer hasn't accepted yet. It reserves nothing and notifies no driver; on confirmation it becomes a real assignment — or re-plans if that pairing no longer works.

How it works

From confirmed bookings to a crewed day.

  1. 01

    Bookings come in

    From accepted quotes, enquiries, recurring trips or your import — each with its vehicle class, group size, times and route.

  2. 02

    Press Auto-assign

    For one booking, a day on the dispatch board or a whole range on the planning timeline. Bookings are crewed one at a time, in order.

  3. 03

    Review the reasons

    “Crewed 5 of 6 bookings”, with a reason on each and an explanation for the one it skipped. Change anything by hand — it's an ordinary assignment.

  4. 04

    Drivers get the job

    The trip arrives on the TransiTour Driver app with pick-ups, passengers and instructions.

Questions

Straight answers.

01

Does auto-planning apply the EU driving and rest rules?

It enforces the duty-hour caps you configure — daily, weekly and fortnightly, 9, 56 and 90 hours by default, taken from the EU driving limits — and never proposes a driver who would exceed them. With Samsara connected it counts the driving time the tachograph actually recorded. It does not model breaks, daily and weekly rest periods or the 12-day derogation, so those stay with your planner and your tachograph analysis.

02

Can we still assign by hand?

Always. Manual assignment runs the same availability checks. If a manual assignment would take a driver past an hour cap you get a warning and can choose to assign anyway; auto-planning never does.

03

What happens to bookings it can't crew?

They stay unassigned with the reason attached — no free vehicle with enough seats, no driver with the right licence, everyone over their hours — so you know whether to re-time the job, call someone in or subcontract it.

04

What if the vehicle class we sold isn't free?

Auto-planning can propose a different class and flags it as a substitution, so you can tell the customer before the day.

05

Does auto-planning cost extra?

No. It is part of the platform at €15 per vehicle per month, with unlimited drivers and users.

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