• Traffic along the route?

    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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  • Routing API: Extension of Truck Routes in Australia and New Zealand

    The Routing API V1.15.0 now supports the following extension of truck routes in Australia and New Zealand:

    • Network for high productivity motor vehicles (HPMV)
    • B-double routes – including routes for B-double vehicles operating at higher mass limits (HML)
    • B-triple routes – including routes for B-triple vehicles operating at higher mass limits (HML)
    • AB-triple routes – including routes for AB-triple vehicles operating at higher mass limits (HML)

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  • Calculation of service times enlarged for Route Optimization / New API version 1.8.0

    New Feature:

    Service times may have a great impact on the time scheduling of a trip. Especially in urban planning problems, when driving time between customers is only a small time span, the importance of service time may increase.
    With the new version of the PTV Developer Route Optimization API PTV offers more flexibility in modelling service times.…

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  • New data for the EWS Road Distance API

    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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  • Release of Geocoding & Places API V 1.5.0 – Places Text Search

    In the new version of the PTV Developer Geocoding & Places API V 1.5.0 you  find a new Feature for the POI / Places Search.

    The new endpoint is named searchPlacesByText and enables you to find places by their name.
    You have the possibility to insert a text to search for the places name.…

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  • Loading Space Optimization API : How to visualize the bin packing results in 3D

    The PTV Developer Loading Space Optimization API allows to optimize the way to arrange goods into one or several bins, in order to spare some loading meters, or to facilitate the unloading of items at stops. 

    Our new tutorial illustrates how simple it is, by mean of the three.js

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