The Trip Planner window enables you to enter the departure and arrival and if required "via" locations for your journey. You can use "special locations" if you wish to plan your route along airports, stations etcetera. In addition you can select your personal locations. You can estimate the order of your via locations by the computer, which can save you time and money during your trip.
1. | Select the Trip Planner option from the Route menu or click the Trip Planner button. The Trip Planner window will appear. |
2. | You can select the locations in three different ways. You can do this in the bottom-left of your screen: |
Once you have chosen the locations, you can select a country in the drop down menu at the top. Subsequently you can select a city or, if available postalcode in the second entry field. Finally in the third entry field you can select a street or area.
With this option you can select a special location as departure-, arrival-, or via-location. Firstly select the location type in the entry field at the top. Next select the country of the location in the second entry field. Finally you can search for the location in the third entry field.
Personal locations are the locations you have entered yourself. You can choose those locations from the entryfield at the top.
Note
If you are uncertain of the exact name of the location, you can use wildcards by typing a part of the location name between "*", for example *castle*. This reduces the selection to all locations with "castle" in the name, for example Newcastle. If you would like to search a petrol station, for example, you select petrol station in the first field, United Kingdom in the second and *London* in the third. After a few seconds a list of petrol stations in London is returned.
3. | Click on the big flashing arrow next to the input fields. The departure location will than appear in the list "Current Route" |
4. | Repeat the steps 2 and 3 for arrival- and via-locations |
5. | If necessary, you can use the buttons right of the current route overview to edit the list. You can delete a location by selecting it in the list and clicking on the button "delete" (There are two "delete" buttons: one to delete one location and a second to delete the complete route). You can change the order of the locations by selecting them and moving them up or down with the arrow buttons. Also, with the button "calculate optimal order" the computer can change the order of the locations, to ensure a minimum travel time and distance. The start- and end-locations will stay the same. |
6. | When the travel order is correct, click "ok". The trip-planner will be closed. |
7. | Click the big flashing button in the main window. The route is now calculated. |