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Advanced Automatic Vehicle Location Features
 
Paul Rochon, our Vice President of Systems Engineering presented several less-known features of the AVeL-BASE software to attendees during the Ortivus North America (NA) User's Group workshops in Chicago last June. For those who did not attend the workshop and would like to get more from your AVL installation, we reproduce the features here.

Use Site Search to determine the nearest vehicles to a particular location. Enter a partial address, intersection or coordinates. Further identification of location can be gained quickly through obtaining the crossing streets, all of the streets within a polygon drawn on the map using the Distance Calculator, within a defined radius, and the use of the Smart Guess feature that discloses approximate answers for similar street names.


Use the Distance Calculator to better calculate response time from a vehicle to another location, or to gauge the average speed of the vehicle from one location to another. The Distance Calculator can also be drawn to multiple points of a polygon and then used with the Site Search to identify vehicles within the area drawn within the polygon.


Use the Playback feature to replay vehicle movements recorded for a configurable duration at a particular time in the past. Using common VCR-type controls (play, pause, stop, reverse, fast-forward and step-forward), the visual information can be manipulated for help in analyzing past incidents.


By using the Map Matching Configuration dialog, visual representation of vehicles on the map can be configured to render the vehicle icon at the position reported, or to render the vehicle icon on the closest street segment. In addition, precision is gained by configuring the search radius, the minimum speed of the vehicle allowed when considering its heading, and ignoring positions older than a specified amount of time.