Transpo: Vehicles, Shuttling and the Basecamp Footprint

The Transpo tab's eight views, the vehicle list, overnight parking, and how many vehicle spaces basecamp needs.

8 min readUpdated September 2026

Eight Views

The view switcher across the top of the tab picks what you are looking at. The first three are grids of people against days. The last three answer questions about one day.

ViewWhat it shows
Crew TranspoVehicles charted as bars across each crew member's days, with Gets to Set and Drives beside the name
Cast TranspoThe same grid for the cast. It replaced Cast Shuttling on September 21
Cast HoldingWhere each performer, and each named background performer, waits between setups
FootprintWhich trucks, trailers and facilities are on the lot, and the space total per day
VehiclesThe vehicle list, and the Parking and Meeting Points list under it
MapEvery known morning run to base camp for one shoot day
GridEverybody's hotel, vehicle, shuttle and flights on one day, in one table
CardsOne card per vehicle, or per hotel, with who is on it that day
Tip: Shuttle codes, shuttle legs and holding have their own article: Cast Transpo, Shuttle Legs and Cast Holding. The Map is covered in Lodging and Transpo Maps, and Grid and Cards in The Logistics Grid and Cards Views.

Defaults and Exceptions

Each person carries a transpo profile, shown in the two columns beside their name. Gets to Set is how they usually arrive. Drives is the production vehicle they drive. For cast, the Usual Holding column in Cast Holding is the third part. Picking a vehicle in Drives draws that vehicle as a bar across every day the person works. Once drawn they are ordinary bars: drag them, trim them, erase them. On Crew Transpo, a Draw N assigned vehicles button appears when somebody has a vehicle in Drives and no bar for it yet.

Tip: Set the profile first, then fix the days that differ.

How People Get to Set

There are six modes. The code is what prints in a cell and on the Shuttle: palette.

CodeModeTakes a parking space?
SHShuttleNo
UUberNo
SRSelf-ReportingYes
PAPrivate PANo
RCRental CarYes
CCRides w/ CrewNo

Where Cast Wait

Basecamp cost is what each holding option adds to the footprint.

CodeSpaceBasecamp cost
PVTPrivate RoomShares a banger trailer
SHRShared RoomTwo performers to one room
2BGDouble Banger4 spaces per 2 rooms
3BGTriple Banger4 spaces per 3 rooms
HWHoneywagon Stall4 spaces per 8 stalls
CUBCubicleShares a cubicle trailer
MHMotorhome / Star Trailer4 spaces, one performer
CHGLocation Changing RoomNone
GRLocation Green RoomNone
TENTAuthorized TentNone
Tip: The three location-provided options cost no space. Moving one performer out of a motorhome and into the location's green room takes four spaces off the day.

The Footprint Total

The Footprint view lists the show's trucks, trailers and facilities, and marks per day whether each one is on the lot. The total underneath is that day's vehicle space count.

  • Every present row contributes the vehicle spaces it occupies
  • Cast holding converts into trailers at your show's ratios, rounded up to whole trailers
  • Each motorhome is one performer and 4 spaces of its own
  • Crew, cast and extras parking add one space per car
  • Location-provided holding adds nothing
Interactive Demo
Basecamp Footprint
Change how a performer gets to set or where they wait, and watch the vehicle space total move. The arithmetic is the app's own.
D4 · Friday, Sep 11 · Basecamp: Wilson Lot
Cast shuttling & holding
PerformerGets to setHoldingCodes
Marisol Vega
ANA
SH / MH
Dev Ramanathan
GEORGE
SH / PVT
Priya Nair
DET. HALE
U / PVT
Cole Barrett
YOUNG MAN
SR / 2BG
Renee Adjei
NURSE
SH / CUB
Bram Kowalski
SECURITY
CC / CHG
On the lot today
Parking
CastCounted from the shuttle column. Self-reporting and rental cars park; Uber and riding with crew do not.1
Total vehicle spaces needed
Trucks, trailers and facilities21
Cast holding units16
Crew parking18
Cast parking1
Extras parking6
Total62

Your Show's Ratios

Set the room-to-trailer ratios to match what your show rented, in Globals under Transpo. Every day recounts.

SettingDefaultWhat it means
Private rooms per banger2A standard double banger
Rooms per cubicle trailer6Cubicle trailer capacity
Honeywagon stalls8Stalls in one honeywagon unit
Prep days before7How far before D1 the logistics grids open
Wrap days after3How far past the last shoot day they run

The Vehicle List

Vehicles sit in three categories: Working trucks the departments run, Rentals the production pays for by the day, and Personal cars. On an empty list, Add Standard List seeds the twelve standard working vehicles, from the Art Truck to the Fuel Truck.

  • Drivers and Seats. Seats drive the warning when more people are on a vehicle than it holds
  • Pickup Address: where it collects riders unless a day says otherwise
  • Drop-off Address
  • Overnight Parking: where it sleeps, and where its run starts on the Transpo map
  • MPG, plus $/Day and Committed for the Producer tier
  • Export booking request, per vehicle, for the rental house
Important: The seat warning counts people against seats and nothing else. If half the van is full of gear, it will not know.

Overnight Parking

A truck that never moves needs one Overnight Parking address on the vehicle list. A truck that sleeps at the stage for a week and at a hotel lot the next is charted instead. Add the yards to Parking and Meeting Points under the vehicle list, then use the Parking: palette on Crew Transpo to draw a thin strip along the bottom of the driver's row. The strip only lands where that row has a vehicle charted. Painting where there is none shows Nothing parked there. Meeting points share that list, with Kind set to Meeting point. They are offered as the ends of a shuttle leg and never as parking strips.

Background Performers

Named background performers appear in Cast Holding under their own Background header, with their work days read from their calls on the call sheet. They are not on the Cast Transpo grid, never appear in Lodging and never get a stay. Their parking count feeds the extras line of the footprint.

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