CMMS, EAM & Spare Parts Management worked example

Technician Travel Time at 22% site access, escort, permit and route-variation allowance: a worked example

This worked example runs the technician travel time numbers for a tougher week than the baseline: 22% site access, escort, permit and route-variation allowance instead of the typical 30%. Estimate technician travel time across work orders, routes, buildings, production areas, or remote service locations.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Work orders requiring technician travel: 84 work orders (held at the documented default)
  • Work orders reached per hour of travel: 5.5 work orders / hr (held at the documented default)
  • Site access, escort, permit and route-variation allowance: 22 % (the input this scenario stresses; the baseline uses 30)

Working through the calculation

  • The calculation starts from the formula this tool documents: Base technician travel time time = work orders requiring technician travel รท work orders reached per travel hour.
  • Required technician travel time time works out to 18.63 hr at these inputs, and this is the headline figure for the scenario.
  • Base technician travel time time works out to 15.27 hr at these inputs.
  • site access, escort, permits, tool pickup, and route variation allowance applied works out to 22 % at these inputs.
  • work orders reached per travel hour works out to 5.5 pieces / min at these inputs.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where site access, escort, permit and route-variation allowance sits at 30% and the headline result is 19.85 hr, this scenario comes in 6.15% below the baseline at 18.63 hr.
  • Use it when scheduling a shift of field work, sizing a mobile crew, or quoting travel labor for off-site or multi-building service contracts. A result at this level usually justifies acting on the stressed input before touching anything else, because every other figure in the table is downstream of it.

Results at a glance

  • Required technician travel time time: 18.63 hr (headline result)
  • Base technician travel time time: 15.27 hr
  • site access, escort, permits, tool pickup, and route variation allowance applied: 22 %
  • work orders reached per travel hour: 5.5 pieces / min

Run it with your numbers

  • To rerun this with your own numbers, open the live Technician Travel Time calculator, set site access, escort, permit and route-variation allowance to your actual value, and adjust the remaining inputs to match your operation.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.