Vehicle Resource
An instance of a particular means of transport, or a group of identical instances of means of transport that can provide transportation services.
You use this business object to map the capacity and availability of vehicles that you want to use for transportation.
You can choose up to eight dimensions and units of measurement to describe the capacity. Note that the mass and volume are predefined by default. Planning can only take the vehicle capacity into account if these correspond to the dimensions and units of measurement that you have defined in a freight unit building rule.
Note
You cannot define the available capacity for this resource type dependent on time. However, you can define a time-dependent availability using shift sequences. For more information about defining shift sequences, see Specification of Definitions and Creating Definitions.
In the planning profile, you can specify whether the system can consider a manual overload of the resource capacity.
Vehicle Group and Vehicle Type
The vehicle and vehicle group types specify attributes such as the physical properties of a certain kind of vehicle. When you have created a vehicle type you can:
use the type as a template to create vehicle resources, copying the attributes of the type to new resource
request a special type of vehicle resource in a forwarding order or in booking order. (This is similar to the function already available for container groups and types).
For more information see Customizing for Transport Management under 
Transportation Management
Master Data
Resources
Define Equipment Groups and Equipment Types
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Structure
You can define, among others, the following parameters for vehicle resources:
Passive means of transport
In Customizing, you can define vehicle resources that cannot move by themselves, by selecting the
Passive Means of Transport
checkbox for the means of transport assigned to the vehicle resource.For more information, see Definition of Means of Transport.
Vehicle combination
You can combine means of transport to create vehicle combinations.
For more information, see Definition of Means-of-Transport Combinations.
Compartment
You can divide the loading space of a vehicle resource into compartments.
For more information, see Definition of Compartments.
Capacity (see Definition of Capacity)
Availability (see Definition of Availability)
Minimum number of seals
You can specify the minimum number of seals of the vehicle resource. You can use this information for the definition of incompatibilities.
Resource template (see Copying Resources from Templates)
Physical properties (see Definition of Physical Properties)
Downtimes (see Definition of Downtimes)
Qualifications (see Definition of Qualifications)
Attached equipment (see Definition of Attached Equipment)
Grouping attributes (see Definition of Grouping Attributes)
Alternative names (see Definition of Alternative Names)
Integration
To define vehicle resources, you must have defined means of transport. For more information, see Definition of Means of Transport.