Much as I prefer E and L and always struggle to figure out +/- on foreign sites, I would say one of the most common questions I get on Traksy is "what do the E, L and OT" things mean. As far as I can tell neither option is even remotely obvious to most users, and most people just ignore the bits they don't understand, often forever
Small things generate such strong feelings. My view remains that it is a column that shows delay, so mathematically it makes sense.
The biggest frustration for me, which doesn't appear to have changed, is the requirement for a train to stop at a location when using the from/to options. I often wish to view a list of all trains running over a line of route in a specific direction. This is impossible in RTT, as far as I am aware.
This is a deliberate system constraint due to the database size. On a typical M-F there are around 38,000 services, let's say that they have around 25 locations each (which is probably about right on average) - that's almost a million things it has to filter, per day. It will probably change when the backend changes.
On the detailed view I see that the route/path info and also platform number has been moved from the right side and that is a massive improvement to making it look less cluttered on the right.
Platform number was never on the right side! Allowances were.
Going forward, in terms of performance times, my suggestion would be :
On time - green (maybe dark green) dot.
Late - all in red even 1 minute
Early - blue (or other colour) - even 1 minute
Dark green dot doesn't look great in all honesty. I think the grey dot is good for being neutral.
do TOCs/NR release booked stock formation in terms of length , for example data that could be portrayed in the drop down detailed info section to differentiate between say a 4 car and 12 car etc according to the daily plan.
Nope.
One thing that i have a problem with, is that for simple view on my mobile, it cuts out the time column, which I'd argue is the one column that under no circumstances should it be trying to not show
Fixed in tomorrow's update.
I noticed that if you type "York" into the Location, Previously or Subsequently box in Detailed search, you get a lot of options, none of which is York. To get York to show you have to type "YRK". This is on Chrome on a Windows 10 PC.
I see the same behaviour on Firefox 70 under Linux.
In simple mode, York station is displayed as the fifth option of five when "york" is typed into the search field. In detailed mode, it's bumped off the list by York Siemens TransSystems.
I've also noticed this and, whilst mildly irritating, I do find that typing York in the location box and ignoring the drop down list does work when you submit your enquiry.
The only way I can see to bring up a full list of the many York locations is to force a deliberate "typing error", such as "York." Interestingly, that full list doesn't include the irrelevant locations like "Bentley (South Yorkshire)", that are suggested in the drop down list!
Fixed in tomorrow's update.
I'll probably get used to it but having the info about the type of unit etc upfront so having to scroll down for times isn't good.
It's in no different place to where it was before in the detailed mode, and is now hidden by default on mobile.
Not sure if it was in old RTT, but noticed a 2Bxx and a 1Wxx on the Bournemouth line showing 'reservations available' in the train info, which as SWR don't do seat reservations is a tad confusing.
That will be for advance tickets where you will get given a counted place reservation
That did cross my mind, but don't imagine the paper timetables show that reservations are available.
Maybe it's a data issue, because of the advance/counted issue the data system thatt RTT gets its info from...
No different to old RTT, just more visible. I have a list of operators that operate on a counted-place only basis but I need to work out the right wording.
It would be great if "today" was marked on the calendar somehow when you're selecting a date.
Fixed in tomorrow's release.