Author: Hansjörg Back

  • One key to rule them all

    Hansjörg Back

    For your PTV Developer subscriptions there are different apps in your PTV Account available. With the API Keys app you manage your API keys and with the Usage Monitor app you keep track of your transactions. To integrate this functionality seamless in your system landscape you now have the possibility to do this programmatically.…

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  • New vehicle profiles for TLN (preview)

    Hansjörg Back

    The properties of a vehicle, such as height or weight, are stored in a profile. Up to now we offer 6 predefined profiles from car to truck for Europe and several more for other continents as a simple entry for all routing-related services.

    With the new version of the PTV Developer Data API V1.9.1 we added 4 vehicle profiles for TLN (Transport en Logistiek Nederland) in Europe:

    • TLN truck 40t (heavy goods vehicle)
    • TLN truck 20t (light goods vehicle)
    • TLN truck 11.99t (city distribution vehicle)
    • TLN van (delivery van)

    Please note that the TLN specific profiles are at the moment in a preview state and changes could be introduced in future.…

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  • Low-Emission Zones

    Hansjörg Back

    Today, low-emission zones are being introduced more and more frequently in cities and urban areas. Established in areas where air pollution levels exceed the acceptable standards, these zones ensure an improvement of air quality by either restricting or prohibiting the entry for high emitting vehicles.…

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  • Reduce speeds in the map data

    Hansjörg Back

    With custom road attributes you have the possibility to modify attributes of roads in the map data to your individual needs (e.g. to consider short-term roadworks on a daily used road and currently not available in the map data). Please note that such changes are relevant for routing and apply to all vehicle profiles.…

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  • New year, new EWS data

    Hansjörg Back

    The EWS (“Entfernungswerk Strasse”) mainly consists of precalculated truck distances to quickly access them for different use cases like invoice auditing. Up to now, we provided data versions for the years 2016 to 2023.

    In the new version of the PTV Developer EWS Road Distance API V1.4.0 we added the data version 2024 for the new year.…

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  • Euro 6 is now active!

    Hansjörg Back

    The PTV Developer Routing API allows you to take the European emission standard of your vehicle into account when calculating tolls and emissions. Until now, the default emission standard for all predefined vehicle profiles offered by PTV has been Euro 5.…

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