PTV Group - Logistics Forum

Hello everyone,
We have received a request from a customer to consider the following points in the context of route optimisation:

• Traffic (historical and/or live)

• Restrictions (lorry is too high/heavy for the road)

• Emission zones (EURO5 lorries are not allowed to drive here)

• Public time slots (access to pedestrian zone only from 6 - 8 a.m.)

Unfortunately, I didn't really find what I was looking for via the API or the forum (only with regard to traffic > as I read it, it's not possible).

Basically we can use one of the following:

• Route Optimisation API

• Route Optimisation Optiflow API

Thank you very much!
BR Claus

Hello Claus,

in the Optimization APIs the flexibility of the underlying routing matrices is usually limited:

• Users can choose the vehicle profile from a given set of available standard profiles which all support high performance routing for fastest dima calculation.
• Therefore overriding vehicle properties such as physical dimensions or emission classes is not possible (at least of now) in the standard cloud services.
• In the Route Optimization OPTIFLOW API you can benefit from the vehicle's traffic mode if your base profile supports it.
• In the VRP Solver based APIs "PTV Route Optimization" and "PTV Sequence Optimization API" (both in maintenance mode!) the profiles are based on static, time-independent graphs. Therefore these two APIs do not support time dependency on the same level as the OPTIFLOW API does.

Please get back to us 1:1 so we might discuss how to get best quality for your users requirements.

Bernd