Tag: Routing API
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New rate limits for Routing API, effective October 13, 2025
We’re making some important updates to how our Routing API handles traffic. These changes will go into effect on October 13, 2025, and are designed to make our services more reliable and responsive.
What is changing?
We are switching from per-minute to per-second rate limits.…
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Driving events available
With events you get detailed information about everything relevant that happens along a route in chronological order like maneuvers, border crossings or using toll roads. Moreover, in the method ‘calculateRoutePost’ of the Routing API we return schedule events, when the driver has to take a break or a rest, wait for the opening of a waypoint or perform a service.…
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Truck routes only on request
There is a large variety of truck routes across the world, where vehicles must follow or at least should use them. Vehicle examples are trucks with hazardous goods or long trucks, even trucks in general. The goal is to ensure road safety, protect infrastructure and maintain efficient traffic flow.…
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Exemptions for low-emission zones
Low-emission zones are areas within cities where certain vehicles have restricted access, if they do not meet the requirements like a minimum emission standard to enter. The main purpose is to reduce pollution and improve air quality. But as always, there is no rule without exceptions 😉
For some low-emission zones it is possible to get an exemption for your vehicle in case it does not meet the requirements to enter.…
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Shorter than short
By default, a route is optimized for travel time (routing mode ‘FAST’). The result is a fast route a real driver would follow accepting a longer distance, if necessary. You also have the possibility to prefer routes with shorter distance, but higher travel times (routing mode ‘SHORT’).…
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Modify more road attributes
With custom road attributes you have the possibility to modify attributes of roads in the map data to your individual needs. Up to now, reducing the driving speed and even prohibiting roads was possible. In the new version of the PTV Developer Data API V1.14.0 we added further possibilities:
- With the parameter ‘allowed’ you can enable a routing through otherwise restricted roads.