Postcode Anywhere... a closer look at route optimisation

About the data

• TomTom data includes more than 31 million kilometres of roads, 3.3 billion inhabitants, and 26 million Points-of-Interest (POIs) worldwide
• TomTom maps provide absolute accuracy to within two metres and 15 centimetres relative accuracy, with 100 million pictures produced per year
• Taps into over 50,000 reliable resources, including satellite and aerial imagery, fleet and postal drivers, public data sources, and government agencies
• Optional GUI interface allows the service to be set up and used in minutes
• For those licensed to use it, the service is available using Integrated Transport Network (ITN) data from Ordinance Survey

Service Features

The service can be used for single, or multi-vehicle optimisation, and will share waypoints out amongst vehicles in the most efficient way possible. This also includes timeslot restrictions, allowing you to visit each waypoint within a specific time window, as well as customise how strictly the optimiser should adhere to the timeslot constraints and exactly what to do with the waypoint if a timeslot simply cannot be met.

You can specify vehicle capacity constraints with variable-sized packages, to ensure your vehicles are not overloaded, or return to depot mid-route for a refill. By adding custom pause times you can factor in anticipated delays at each waypoint for unloading deliveries, and driver break times can be added to ensure afternoon deliveries are scheduled at a realistic time.

Height, weight, width, length and axle weight constraints can be added to each vehicle to prevent routing through restricted roads, and speed profiles data from TomTom is used to accurately predict traffic flow based on time of day, scheduling stops to best avoid rush-hour traffic.

Route Optimisation Sample Data