Tag: release
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Custom Road Attributes scenario for Olympic Games
Olympic and Paralympic Games will take place in Paris in Summer 2024. As a result, traffic in the Ile de France region will be sensitively disturbed for more than 2 months. To facilitate access to the Olympic sites for accredited persons, emergency and security vehicles, taxis, public transports as well as transport for mobility-impaired, the French government decided to reserve some lanes on approximately 185 km of roads, from the 1st of July to the 15th of September 2024.…
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Reduce speeds in the map data
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
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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Unexpected delay? Use the new ETA feature!
The Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) is the time when a vehicle is expected to arrive at a certain place. By relying on accurate predictions, you can optimize your schedules, minimize waiting times and enhance overall customer satisfaction.
In the new version of the PTV Developer Routing API V1.22.0 it is possible to calculate the ETA based on a previously calculated route and the current position of the vehicle.…
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Block roads individually
Long awaited and here it is! From now on you will have the possibility to block roads according to your individual needs with custom road attribute scenarios. A typical use case would be to take into account short-term roadworks on one of the roads you use every day and this information is not currently available in the map data.…
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Predicting new toll prices for Germany
In Europe commercial vehicles currently produce a third of all CO2 emissions in the transport sector. As an important measure for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in transport and for achieving climate protection targets, Germany will be the first country in Europe to introduce a new CO2 differentiation of truck tolls.…