Tag: Routing API
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Electric Vehicles in Routing (preview)
Incorporating electric vehicles (EVs) into your logistics solutions is no longer just an option – it’s more and more a necessity. We enhanced the PTV Developer Routing API to also cover specialized routing needs for electric trucks and vans.…
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Low-Emission Zones
Today, low-emission zones are being introduced more and more frequently in cities and urban areas. Established in areas where air pollution levels exceed the acceptable standards, these zones ensure an improvement of air quality by either restricting or prohibiting the entry for high emitting vehicles.…
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Technically permitted weight for toll calculation
Since the end of the year 2023, two additional vehicle parameters are relevant for toll calculation in several European countries (e.g. Austria and Germany). This follows up the implementation of the 2022 version of the Directive 1999/62/EC (from the European Parliament and the Council on the charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures).…
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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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Euro 6 is now active!
The PTV Developer Routing API allows you to take the European emission standard of your vehicle into account when calculating tolls and emissions. Until now, the default emission standard for all predefined vehicle profiles offered by PTV has been Euro 5.…