Dispatch Manager can be opened in Driver mode from the Tools dropdown at the top of the screen.

• Tools → Dispatch Manager

Dispatch Status:
Enable or disable Living Railroad as a whole, access the Advanced Settings Window, or clear the track path cache.

• Enabled - Enables Living Railroad Dispatch, including automatic dispatch for AI drivers and player task dispatch.
• Disabled - Disables Living Railroad Dispatch entirely. Toggling dispatch off will also disable certain background tasks related to Living Railroad, which may improve performance.
• Show Advanced Dispatch Settings - Opens the Advanced Dispatch Settings Window, which allows customization of many options related to Living Railroad.
• Clear Cached Track Paths - Clears the cached track distances between all trains and industries. This data is used by Living Railroad when deciding where to dispatch trains. If some cached data is incorrect, then this may fix dispatch issues with specific trains or industries. However, on large routes this data may take a very long time to rebuild.

Train Return Tasks:
Controls whether Living Railroad should try to return trains after tasks are complete.

• Enabled - When a train finishes a dispatch task (e.g. a freight delivery), it will automatically be assigned a "Traincar Return" task. Such tasks will be interrupted if another freight delivery is possible.
• Disabled - Trains will be left where they are when the driver finishes their dispatch task.
• Clear Train Home Positions - Resets the 'home' position of every traincar in the world. The 'home' position is the Living Railroad record of where to return each traincar to, and is first recorded when the train is dispatched.

Automatic Runaround:
Controls whether drivers assigned to Automatic Scheduler should 'run around' the train so that it drives loco-forwards.

• Enabled - Drivers will automatically perform runarounds when appropriate. The decision on whether or not to run around considers the percentage of the task that the train would be driving 'backwards', the length of the train, and the proximity of an appropriate runaround location.
• Disabled - Drivers will not perform automatic runarounds.

Under this part of the window, you’ll find a list of all trains, consists, and industries on the current route. By default the list has two columns visible, one labeled Item which includes the aforementioned items and the other labeled Status.

The Status column contains information regarding the industry or consist in the item column. Each item’s status has a dropdown that includes options to perform actions related to the current status/item.

Item:

Clicking on Item opens a dropdown menu with filter options. By default All is the selected filter but the following can be individually selected:

All:

• Shows all trains, industries and passenger stations.

Industries:

• Shows all freight industries on the route.

Passenger Stations:

• Shows all passenger stations on the route.

Passenger Lines:

• Shows the passenger lines for the route. All dispatched and user-edited/created lines will always be shown, but this list will otherwise limit the number of lines shown per station.

All Trains:

• Shows all powered and unpowered consists on the route. Includes cuts of cars with and without a coupled locomotive.

Powered Trains:

• Shows a list of all consists with a powered locomotive.

Rolling Stock:

• Shows a list of consists without a powered locomotive.

Drivers:

• Shows a list of all drivers, active or inactive, on the route.

Status:

Clicking on an item’s Status opens a dropdown menu with various commands related to the current item and status. Below are some of the common commands:

Pause Task

• Allows you to pause the dispatch task for a Driver assigned to Automatic Scheduler. Pausing a task will assign the driver to you and pause its command schedule. While paused, you can drive the train yourself to move it out of the way, or issue new/different commands. When a task is paused this command will change to "Resume Task", which will return the driver to the Automatic Scheduler and have it resume the schedule.

Claim Task

• Allows you to take over an existing driver task, or attempt to generate a new task for a specific industry product. When claimed on an industry the dispatcher will attempt to find you an available train and driver to perform the task, which may not always succeed. When run on a dispatched train/driver the driver will be immediately assigned to you and the current schedule will be cleared. Navigation points will direct you where to go and an objective will be added as a reminder of the task. Automatic pathing for the selected train will end and you’ll be expected to set your own turnouts and navigate to the destination.

Cancel Task

• Canceling a task will instruct the dispatcher to remove this task assignment. This can be used to cancel your own task, or remove an AI driver from a specific task. Note that once canceled, a different train may be assigned to the same task a short time later.

Request Dispatch Task

• This option is available on player owned drivers/trains only, and will instruct the dispatcher that the player (ie, you) would like a task to drive. The dispatcher will examine the available tasks and assign the best available task to that Driver. This may take anywhere from a couple of seconds to several minutes (requires tasks be available to claim).

Cancel Dispatch Request

• This option is available on player owned drivers/trains which have previously requested a task (see above). It will simply cancel the task request, allowing the player to do their own thing.

Assign to Automatic Scheduler

• Assigns the Driver to the Automatic Scheduler, where it can be automatically dispatched on tasks.

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Show [Driver Name]

• Brings up the Driver Detail Window for the selected driver. Here you can see the driver’s current location, assignment, classification and dispatch status.
• Here you’ll also find the Command Status which shows the list of Driver Commands assigned to the AI.

Show [Industry Name]

• Brings up the Industry Detail Window for the quoted industry. Here you’ll find the commodity levels and industry processes as well as info on any active dispatch tasks.

Show [Vehicle Name]

• Brings up the Train Detail window for the quoted train car. Here you’ll find train details such as name and length, current dispatch information, and the new vehicle queues editor (see the "Vehicle Queues Editor" section below for more information).

All details also include an Activity Log interface, which shows a log of all activity related to the displayed item.

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Focus [Item]

• Focuses the world camera to the named item.

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Disable/Enable Dispatch for This Process

• Toggles dispatch on/off for a specific industry process. This effectively tells Living Railroad to ignore that industry process. If an industry has more than one process, only the selected process will be disabled.

Clear Cached Track Paths for this Industry

• Clearing track paths for an industry removes data used by Living Railroad to route and dispatch trains to and from that industry. It will then rebuild the relevant data automatically, but this may take a while, and may impact performance while it runs. It’s recommended to only do this when Living Railroad appears to be wrong about an industry’s reachability.

Show Passenger Lines

• Opens the Passenger Line List Window, focused to the relevant station or passenger line. This window allows passenger lines to be viewed, edited or created.