Stop times

Fix a stop's time, and how long you stay there

Vanu works out each stop's time from live traffic. When one has to happen at an exact time, you fix it and the rest of the route adjusts.

The basics

1

Open the stop

Tap a stop on the route. Below the address there are two things: the arrival time and how long you set aside there. With the switch off, the time is the calculated one.
A stop's Schedule section, switch off, showing the calculated time 07:02
2

Fix the time

Turn the switch on and pick the time. Time at stop is how long it takes there: a house is usually a minute, an institution more.
The same stop with the time fixed at 07:10 and one minute at the stop
3

Look at the route

The fixed stop gets a pin. Every other stop is recalculated around it.
Stop list with Joaquín Martínez fixed at 07:10 and the rest recalculated

The first stop is the departure. Fixing its time is saying when you set off.

4

The departure adjusts itself

If you have not fixed the first stop, Vanu works out its time so you reach the ones you did fix. Here it moved from 07:00 to 07:07.
Scheduling card showing the departure time 07:07

When you fix more than one

You can fix several stops. Vanu works out the legs between them and, when there is time to spare, leaves it as a wait at the earlier stop — rather than driving the van around with passengers aboard.

5

Two fixed times

Here the pickup is 07:10 and the school 08:15. There are 29 spare minutes between them, so the van waits at the first.
List with two fixed stops and the notice You wait 29 min here

When a fixed time cannot be met, Vanu does not invent it: it shows the real arrival and how many minutes late that is.

During the trip

What you set up shows on the running-trip screen, over the stop you are serving.

6

How long you have been at the stop

While you are stopped, the bar shows the time spent against the time you set aside.
Bar on the running trip showing 1:26 of 1:30 at this stop
7

If you run over

Past the time you set aside, the bar says by how much. That is what later pushes the following stops.
Red bar showing 1:14 over the planned time
8

Stops with a fixed time

When the next stop has a fixed time, it shows underneath so you have it in mind.
Fixed time 09:30 notice on the running trip

The time families see during the trip is the van's real arrival, not the fixed time. If you get there early and wait, they see when you arrived.

A default value

If most of your stops take about the same time, set it once instead of filling it in stop by stop.

9

Go to Settings

In the Settings tab, look for “Time at stop”.
Settings menu showing the Time at stop option
10

Pick a time for each kind

One for houses and one for institutions, where several people get on or off at once. It applies to new stops.
Time at stop screen with 1 min for passenger stops and 3 min for institutions

This does not touch routes you have already saved, and any stop can still have its own time.