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perfect, Bernd!

Hello everyone, Just a few highlights of the new Navigator G2: For users always up-to-date online maps soon to be combined with hybrid/offline maps to be independent of an online connection nice and smooth TomTom-based navigation experience More restrictions (like time-based restrictions) . Better r...

Generating maneuver hints might be not as easy as it looks, here are some hints: Maneuver hints are generally generated depending on the time you need to arrive at the next maneuver point. The higher the speed, and the bigger the roads you are on or you go to, the earlier the hints. Typically there ...

For all fleet managers: The first manufacturer-independent route planner for electric trucks and vans is now available for free use - 200 vehicle models and variants can be discovered and used as digital twins - Realistic consumption calculation for tours with multiple stops and different payloads -...

Hi Leen, not sure about your environment, are you using Drive&Arrive from your app only, or do you also use the driver app? What you describe regarding tp updating the tour with a changed ServiceTime at stop is the right thing to do, and it should do the job. In case you are using the driver app...

Hi Bernd, Routing with Drive&Arrive is a bit more complicated, as it combines drive&rest times optimization and traffic incident-based optimization of the route. Anyhow, if you only want the polygon you will get quite similar results using calculateExtendedRoute from API 1 of xServers, with ...

We would recommend to send it every minute (driver app also sends it every minute) Beneath more frequent updates of ETA This assures better automatic recognition of drive&rest periods taken by the driver. Up to 3 minutes is also quite good Important is, that you start delivering GPS positions, w...

The most simple is to get an xServer internet test version https://www.ptvgroup.com/en/solutions/products/ptv-xserver/test-now/ The received key is also valid for the use in Drive&Arrive You can also contact our Sales in Germany, Austria, Swiss: For clients: vertrieb@ptvgroup.com For partners: p...

The Arrival Board also contains historic / arrived tours of the last 24h which is a very helpful functionality in many cases. It is not really disturbing, as the Arrival Board has an automatic scrolling mechanism, so you will be automatically scrolled to see the current arrivals, but users have to t...

In meantime, both time slots and PTA (planned time of arrival) are not mandatory anymore,
so in case you don't have this information available, you don't have to fill in anything, when creating a trip/tour