4.5.5: Generate Transit Vehicle Operator Route Assignments

This process shall assign transit vehicle operators to transit schedules. The transit vehicle operator's eligibility, route preferences, seniority, and transit vehicle availability shall be used by the process to determine the transit vehicle operator's route assignment. This process shall also provide an exception handling process for the operator assignment function. This process shall generate new, supplemental operator assignments as required. New operator assignments may be needed due to operator absence, vehicle incident, vehicle mechanical problem, etc. This process shall receive inputs from the transit vehicle operations function and from the operator scheduling and assignment functions. The output produced by this process shall send new operator assignment information to the operator scheduling and assignment functions. The output produced by this process shall also be sent to the transit vehicle operator in the form of the next work assignment.

This process is associated with the Transit Management Center physical object.

This process is associated with the following functional objects:

• Transit Center Fixed-Route Operations
• Transit Center Operator Assignment
• Transit Center Paratransit Operations

This process is associated with the following data flows:

• available_transit_operators
• paratransit_services_for_transit_vehicle_operators
• transit_route_assign_for_archive
• transit_services_for_transit_vehicle_operators
• transit_vehicle_operator_assignment
• transit_vehicle_operator_eligibility_data
• transit_vehicle_operator_route_assignment_considerations
• ttvo-route_assignments