Author: Hansjörg Back

In one of our tutorials we show how to import the OpenAPI specifications of the PTV Developer APIs in Postman. Then you are able to quickly test the different services by sending requests and analyzing the responses.

Moreover, for some PTV Developer APIs we now provide specific Postman collections.…

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Some time ago we introduced traffic events chronologically along the route in the event list. In the new version of the PTV Developer Routing API V1.16.0 we also provide the polylines of the affected route parts by using the new parameter ‘TRAFFIC_EVENTS_POLYLINE’. Then the response contains the polyline of each traffic event reached by the route.…

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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 2017 to 2022.

In the new version of the PTV Developer EWS Road Distance API V1.3.0 you even have the possibility to use all data from 2016 onwards.…

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Do you need generally accepted distances for tender management or invoice auditing? Then the new EWS Road Distance API could be something for you!

The EWS (“Entfernungswerk Strasse”) mainly consists of precalculated truck distances and is the de facto standard in the transport sector.…

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The properties of a vehicle, such as height or weight, are stored in a profile. Up to now we offer predefined profiles for Europe, America and Australia as a simple entry for all routing-related services.

With the new version of the PTV Developer Data API V1.2.0 we added vehicle profiles for the IMEA region.…

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Usually a route is optimized for travel time. The result is a fast route a real driver would follow accepting a longer distance, if necessary. But there are use cases where you want to optimize a route for distance, for example in case of billing purposes based on distance.…

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