Optimise and Review Transport Routes

Run route optimisation, inspect warnings, preview manual route changes, and save a reviewed dispatch plan.

Article guidance

Optimisation builds route assignments from your vehicles, stops, timing, fixed departure overrides, loads, and constraints. Review is where dispatch knowledge comes in: the optimiser can calculate, but your team still knows the venue, drivers, loading reality, and awkward access notes.

Optimise routes

Open the Routes tab: Use Optimise routes or Re-optimise when stops or settings have changed.
Wait for the result: SmartGig builds routes and returns warnings or errors where constraints cannot be satisfied.
Review route summaries: Check travel, service time, loads, time windows, and vehicle use.
Open warnings: Investigate load, timing, fixed departure, unassigned stop, linked stop, or vehicle constraint warnings.

Fixed departure overrides

A per-vehicle start time override fixes that vehicle to leave at the chosen local time for the route date. SmartGig plans around that instruction even when it means showing warnings because a time window, availability limit, or driver-day parameter can no longer be met.

Manual review

Move stops if needed: Drag stops between vehicles or change their order where your operational knowledge improves the plan.
Preview the route impact: SmartGig can show the effect of custom assignments before saving.
Make sure every stop is assigned once: A reviewed plan should not duplicate or lose stops.
Save route review: The plan moves to Reviewed and becomes ready for export.