Category: PTV Developer

As you probably know you can consider driving time regulations for EU and US in our routing like break and rest rules for heavy goods vehicles. Up to now we assumed a well rested driver at the start of the route.

In the new version of the PTV Developer Routing API V1.18.0 it is possible to include the already conducted work of the driver from a previous route.…

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Truck restrictions on roads are put in place for a variety of reasons, including environmental protection or traffic management and can vary depending on the location, type of road, and local regulations – each of them has influence on a calculated route.…

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This is your space for all relevant updates and news about the PTV Developer APIs. Here we regularly publish articles about: 

• New services and features 
• New tutorials, code samples, and technical concepts 
• API updates
  

We have another blog dedicated entirely to PTV xServer.…

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Some locations may not be directly adjacent to a public, cartographed road. For instance rural addresses with long driveways or large industrial sites. To account for this, the segment between the public road and the location is added to the route. …

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Having to cross a busy road is a time-consuming and often dangerous task. To avoid this, you may prefer to plan trips in such a way, that the vehicle arrives on the correct side of the road.

With the new matchSideOfStreet parameter, this is now possible in the Route Optimization API V1.10.1 and Sequence Optimization API V1.7.1.…

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We have just published a new code sample demonstrating the use of mixed loading prohibitions in the Route Optimization API.

It allows you to play with incompatibilities between transports and see the effect it has on the optimized plan. Check it out right here.…

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