The objective of the line blocking is to determine the number of required vehicles for a given timetable and simultaneously minimize the resulting costs. You can perform line blocking with or without vehicle interchange:
- Line blocking without vehicle interchange always uses the vehicle combination specified (Fundamentals: Line blocking description without vehicle interchange)..
- Line blocking with vehicle interchange is only available if the Detailed line blocking add-on is activated ( Enabling or disabling add-ons ). This procedure allows for the following: For each vehicle journey section, you can choose the most suitable vehicle combination from the combinations saved to the attribute Vehicle combination set (Fundamentals: Line blocking description with vehicle interchange).
You can edit the attribute Vehicle combination set like any other input attribute of vehicle journey sections:
- in the tabular timetable (Editing a vehicle journey section and Editing the attribute values of all or all active vehicle journey sections)
- in the vehicle journey sections list
- via Multi-edit > Vehicle journey sections
For example, you can transfer the Vehicle combination set attribute data of the vehicle combinations to the respective attribute of the vehicle journey sections (Specifying a vehicle combination set).
