Stations are a powerful tool to monitor the number of vehicles throughout different neighborhoods of a city or even small locations like a train station.
How to enable this feature?
Stations is an app. To enable it, go to:
- Apps
- Find Stations
- Click Activate
As soon as this feature is activated, you and other users will be able to see this option on the Dashboard.
How to create a station?
- Select the branch for which you want to add a station
- Go to Settings
- Go to Stations
- Click Add station
- Set a name, a capacity (how many you want to have in this station), and set the coordinates of the branch
Now you can draw the area.
- Click on the station you have created
- Click on the coordinates field
- Click Area
- Draw the area
- Click Update station area
How to view stations?
- Go to the Map
- Click Stations
- Hover over the station to see details
Station preview- The first number is the number of vehicles in the area that are ready to use (operational and not in a rental).
- The second number is the number of vehicles in the area.
- The third number is the capacity that has been set in the settings.
- Here you can see again that there are 4 vehicles ready to use out of 4 vehicles in the area.
- The last trip in this area has been ended about 2 hours ago.
- Inactivity time is about 5 minutes for all vehicles in this area. For each vehicle, we get the max value between the last ended trip and the last time it was set operational and make the average for all vehicles.
- Nothing has happened to the vehicles in the last 5 minutes on average.
- There are in total about 12.59 vehicles per square kilometer in this area. This includes all vehicles which are within this area and calculates an average compared to the size of the area.