Tag: Routing API
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Reading a Route’s Climb Before You Commit
Two routes leave the same yard for the same delivery. One is eighty kilometres and climbs over a pass. The other is ninety-five kilometres and follows the valley. On a map they look like a simple trade of distance for time, and most planning tools present them exactly that way: two numbers each, kilometres and minutes, pick the smaller.…
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When 85 km/h is the wrong answer
A non-emergency patient transport van pulls onto the motorway carrying a passenger in a wheelchair. It will not do 85 km/h. It holds 60, steadily, because that is the speed at which the ride stays comfortable and safe. The dispatcher who scheduled the pickup, however, used a route calculation that assumed a normal motorway speed.…
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When you want routing to ignore the clock
There is an assumption built into most routing requests: that a good travel time reflects the moment of travel. Rush hour is slower than midnight; a usual Tuesday is slower than a quiet Sunday. For a live ETA, that is exactly right, you want the number to move with reality.…
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Street Penalties for Routing API
From “Avoid” to “How Much to Avoid”
The Routing API has always let you avoid things: highways, toll roads, ferries, rail shuttles. Useful, but blunt. “Avoid” is a switch — it is on or off, and behind the scenes it maps to one fixed penalty. You cannot say how strongly to avoid a ferry, and you cannot ask the router to prefer a road type.…
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New Speed Calibration Process for PTV Developer Vehicle Profiles
Delivering More Realistic Travel Times for Superior Route Planning
We’re excited to announce that a significant update to PTV Developer vehicle profiles is now available. This enhancement introduces a new speed calibration process for time-dependent traffic data, bringing more realistic travel time calculations to your routing solutions.…
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New rate limits for Routing API are now live
The new per-second rate limits for our Routing API that we announced on July 29 are now officially in effect.
What’s now active?
We switched from per-minute to per-second rate limits. This allows for more precise traffic control and better system stability.…