HERE Tour Planning is a many-to-many route optimization service that helps transport and logistics companies solve multi-vehicle routing challenges and hence improve the operational efficiency of routes and lower the costs for their fleets. The algorithm takes multiple parameters into consideration to organize jobs into tours for each vehicle in the most optimal way. These include:

• delivery time windows
• job requirements and priority
• driver qualifications and available driver hours
• vehicle capabilities (e.g. physical dimensions, refrigeration)
• traffic & weather conditions

HERE Tour Planning helps to improve customer satisfaction by reducing missed delivery windows and increasing the delivery success rate. Multivehicle routing problems are solved by linking the schedule of locations to which deliveries need to be made with the list of available vehicles and the available driver hours. It also allows for a flexible combination of pickups and deliveries into multi-stop jobs that supports companies in meeting their sustainability goals and operational targets.

The HERE Tour Planning service (API) can leverages HERE's leading location services, including mapping, address management, geocoding & search, truck-specific routing and real-time traffic to organize tours in advance for the next shift, the next day, or even in real-time. It defines job lists in a simple format, including location and job type offering. If any conditions change along the way, HERE Tour Planning supports immediate re-planning to maintain the highest operational efficiency and to provide accurate estimated time of arrival (ETAs).

Key Features

• Tour Planning: The algorithm creates cost-efficient tour schedules for a fleet of vehicles and drivers with a simple call to the Tour Planning API.
• Multiple vehicles: Supports multiple vehicle profiles and their associated constraints like vehicle weight, height or whether they are refrigerated.
• Multiple time windows: Defines time windows for individual jobs and shift times to ensure that drivers, vehicles, and jobs are appropriately matched whilst meeting service level agreements and specified delivery windows
• Enterprise-grade routing: Tour plans are based on real-time traffic and weather conditions and can take a wide range of truck attributes and route constraints into consideration as well.
• Dynamic re-planning: Once tours have been created, this plan can be fed back into the tour planning algorithm together with the new job entries to produce updated tour plans which take account of changing conditions.
• Straight-forward integration: HERE Tour Planning can easily be integrated with your existing systems and in-house data, as well as, configured and tailored to meet the evolving needs of your business

Transaction definition The number of Transactions charged for a Request is the sum of all locations such as starting points, destination points and/or stops as processed by the API.

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