• 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.

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  • Track Matching output now includes time stamp

    In Version 1.7.0 of PTV Developer Map Matching API time stamps are supported in input and output.

    This allows you to use the timestamp from the response for better toll calculation in the case of time-based tolls. You can easily get the “startTime” for each path and use it together with the “routeId” in the PTV Routing API to calculate the toll.…

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  • It’s all about time

    If a route passes a road, which is prohibited for the given vehicle (e.g. the road is closed for trucks), you get a violation event when using the PTV Developer Routing API . Sometimes these restrictions are only temporary (e.g. no trucks allowed during the night).…

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