With events you get detailed information about everything relevant that happens along a route in chronological order like maneuvers, border crossings or using toll roads. Moreover, in the method ‘calculateRoutePost’ of the Routing API we return schedule events, when the driver has to take a break or a rest, wait for the opening of a waypoint or perform a service.
With PTV Developer Routing API V1.35.0, we provide the new schedule event type ‘DRIVING’ in addition to the already existing schedule events break, daily rest, waiting and service. Use the request parameter ‘SCHEDULE_EVENTS_WITH_DRIVING’ and you get an event list without any time gaps and know at any given moment what activity the driver should perform. Now the duration of all schedule events make up the total travel time of the route. More details are available in our event concept.
To test the new behavior and also to get an overview of all events, we provide a brand new showcase. There you can you can analyze for example breaks and rests for different working hours presets. At the same time it is possible to investigate all other event types.
The above sample route starts in Paris (A) and ends in Karlsruhe (B). As you see, after 4h30min a break (3) of 45min is according to the EU driving time regulation near Luxembourg necessary.
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