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October 2024

Our October releases include Admin Web reporting enhancements, Rider App reservation tile...

Our October releases include Admin Web reporting enhancements, Rider App reservation tile improvements, and the ability to add DVIR photos in the Driver App, to name a few. Check out the full list below.

iOS Updates

Rider App - 2024-10-15

Improve
  • Reservation Tile. Improving performance and speed of the reservation process by using the Reservations Tile. 
  • Move some code to Swift Packages, anduse SPM for some dependencies. Performance related work.
Fix
  • Suppress parking reservations when making fixed route reservations when appropriate. We will not display Add Parking (Reservations) when parking is restricted by User Type.

Android Updates

Driver App - 2024-10-04

Fix
  • The Driver Pin verification screen does not work when the username + password auth is disabled in Instance Management. This fixes an issue where if the driver inactivity timer was turned on and required a Driver pin to exit the inactivity screen, it would error out if the password auth was disabled.

Rider App - 2024-10-15

Improve
  • Suppress Chucker notification and add debug menu option. Performance related work. 
Fix
  • Suppress parking reservations when making fixed route reservations when appropriate. We will not display Add Parking (Reservations) when parking is restricted by User Type.
  • Fix missing notification method for anonymous riders. Now allowing public riders to set notification preference.
Beta
  • Reservation Tile. Improving performance and speed of the reservation process by using the Reservations Tile.

Driver App - 2024-10-21

Improve
  • DVIR Photos. Adding ability for drivers to include photos when using DVIR.
Beta
  • Dropoff by Request. Adding Stops button to the Schedule tab of the Driver app.  This will allow drivers to mark a stop as requested.  This will add the request stop to the drivers manifest.

Web Updates

Admin Web - 2024-10-04

New
  • Add Route Service Start Date and End Date to rideReport API. Adds service start/end dates to ride report API to be surfaced in report.
  • Valet | Add a Way to Distinguish Verified Users in Ticket Viewer and Reports. Adds User Type field that consists of “Verified” and “Regular”. Verified users have accounts within TripShot, and receive in-app notifications whereas regular users do not have accounts within TripShot and receive SMS notifications.
  • Add Route Service Name to rideReport API. Adds route service name to ride report API to be surfaced in report.
Improve
  • Additional SFMTA Updates to Commuter Shuttle Map & Street Restrictions - Salesforce. SFMTA restricted streets update request. Reference ticket for updated streets.
  • Exclude Invalid Badge Information in Badging Report - Stanford Medicine. This hides all invalid badge data from the reporting. Only badges in the file uploaded via the admin console will be reported on.
  • Enable FlexRide to use the holiday setting. This fixes an issue where the FlexRide scheduler did not run on holidays, which affected the requests for the day after the holiday.
  • Allow Setting `maxAllowedOffRouteMeters` for Detour Admin Alerts. Clients can now set, in the admin console, the max off route distance a FR vehicle can travel before a detour alert is triggered. Until now this was a fixed value of 1000m.
  • Add "Battery Capacity" Field to the Vehicle Data Values. Battery Capacity field added to resources > vehicles.
  • When importing from Optibus, allow choosing a schedule to import into. When importing from Optibus, allow choosing a schedule to import into
Fix
  • Flex Cut Off Date Not Extending on Scheduled Date/Time. This fixes an issue where the reservations were not being extended based on the Request Cutoff date settings, which was caused by a instance not also having FR reservations. This fixes it so that Flex reservations cutoff settings are not dependent on the FR reservation cutoff setting.
  • Protection rides are sometimes not monitored. Fix arrival detection on protection rides
  • Trip Level Headsign Being Saved as Route Service Level Headsign. This will fix the issue where route level headsigns were being populated to the route service.
  • Reservation is not cancelled in protection/original ride, when there exists an overlapping reservation. Correcting behavior to auto cancel reservation when appropriate.
  • Duplicating routes under flex service & saving duplicate route, makes original route stops & rides gets removed from the route. This fixes an issue where the stops and rides from the copied route would be removed when using the duplicate route option.
  • Error page is displayed on trying to save route service while creating a new route. Correcting behavior to allow saving route service when creating a new route.
  • Incorrect validation message displayed on providing the more than than 5000, under EV Battery Capacity (kWh) field. Now displaying correct validation message when providing the more than than 5000, under EV Battery Capacity (kWh) field.
  • Saving an existing vehicle having 'EV Battery Capacity (kWh)' shows validation message. Correcting behavior so that Vehicles with 'EV Battery Capacity (kWh)' will not add, to the value.

Admin Web - 2024-10-21

New
  • Request for a Failed On Demand Ride report that is available from the Admin console. This report will show the On Demand requests that were unable to be fulfilled along with a reason.
Improve
  • Valet | After Hours Boxes changes. After hours boxes are now optional when creating a valet service for operations that do not utilize after hours boxes.
Fix
  • Ride monitor stuck while using snappedExperimentalArrivalDetection. Bug fix for new arrival detection.
  • Error page displayed when the Vendor Manager or Maintenance Worker clicks on 'Show Report' for the 'Activated Passes' report on the 'Reports' page. Correcting behavior to remove error when Show Report is used for cetain roles, when displaying the Activated Passes report.
  • Inappropriate UI displayed on 'Import From Optibus' popup when long calendar name is present on 'Planning >> Calendar' page. Correcting behavior to improve this display.
  • Fix GTFS RT E020 Validation Error. This fixes an issue with the GTFS-RT V2 where the start time field had an incorrect time format.
Beta

Continued work for Sustainability Dashboard Beta:

  • Add Last Updated Field.
  • Create Total CO2 Emissions Per Passenger Mile by Vehicle Bar Chart.
  • Create "Total CO2 Emissions Over Time" Area Chart Viz.
  • Create "Distribution of Emissions by Fuel Type" Pie Chart Viz.
  • Create Download CSV button for Each Visualization Card.
  • Info Icon for Each KPI Card & Visualization.
  • Create Filter Pane.
  • Create Comparison Metrics on the Bottom of KPI Cards.
  • Create KPI Cards for Sustainability Summary Dashboard.

Admin Web - 2024-10-25

Improve
  • Limit concurrent rideProgress runs and use Fake map provider for simulated rides during rideProgress. Performance related work.

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