Automatic driver matching
This article explains how MobilityManager suggests a likely driver for a Strafmandat (penalty notice) by matching the violation time against your booking records, and how to read the confidence it returns.
What automatic matching does
Automatic driver matching looks at the mandate's vehicle and the time the violation occurred, then searches your bookings for a driver who had that vehicle at that moment. It returns a suggestion with an evidence trail — it does not change the mandate on its own. You still confirm the driver through the assign-driver action.
Running the match requires the strafmandate:view permission.
Run a match
- Open the Strafmandat. Make sure it has both a violation timestamp and a linked vehicle — matching needs both.
- Start the driver-matching action for the mandate.
- Review the returned suggestion: suggested driver, the booking used as evidence, a confidence score and category, and a plain-language evidence note.
- If the suggestion is correct, confirm it using Assign a driver to a penalty notice.
How confidence is determined
The system considers bookings for the mandate's vehicle whose status blocks availability (that is, bookings that actually reserve the car), and checks which of them cover the violation timestamp.
| Situation | Category | Score | Auto-assignable |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exactly one booking overlaps the violation time | high | 0.94 | Yes |
| Several bookings overlap; nearest by start time is used | medium | 0.68 | No |
| No overlap; the closest booking in time is suggested | low | 0.34 | No |
| No qualifying bookings exist for the vehicle | none | — | No |
Note: If the mandate is missing a violation time or a vehicle, matching returns the category none with the message that the matching context is incomplete. Fill in those fields on the mandate and run the match again.
Reading the result
- Suggested driver — the driver from the winning booking, with name for quick recognition.
- Booking — the booking that provided the evidence, so you can verify it directly.
- Evidence — a short explanation, for example that one booking covers the violation timestamp, or that the nearest booking was used because no direct overlap was found.
- Auto-assignable — only a single, unambiguous overlap (high confidence) is marked auto-assignable. Everything else is offered for manual confirmation.
Tip: Treat medium and low suggestions as leads, not conclusions. A low-confidence result means no booking actually covered the violation time, so verify against your own records before assigning.
After matching
Matching never records the driver by itself. Once you are satisfied, confirm the driver through the assign-driver action, which creates the active assignment, or mark the driver as unknown if the evidence does not support a confident choice.
Related
- Assign a driver to a penalty notice
- The mandate status workflow and transitions
- Forward a notice to the authority (Anhörung)
