Introduction

RouteCloud supports five primary operations:

• Building entirely new routes.
• Sequencing sets of existing routes.
• Recommending the "best" (top N potential) insertion positions for stops on routes.
• Inserting a list of jobs onto routes without reordering existing stops.
• Evaluating existing routes to determine arrival times at stops, costs, distances, breaks, and violations.

The RouteCloud API can also Instantiate routes from driver shift_patterns, to be used in the above operations.

RouteCloud offers many features, including but not limited to:

• Fast optimization operations. A build routes operation for 1000 jobs typically completes within two minutes, while sequencing takes only seconds.
• Accurate driving times and distances between locations. Both are accurately estimated from road network data.
• Support for advanced routing features such as shifts, time windows, date constraints, driver rest breaks, required or disallowed attributes, vehicle capacities, multi-day routes, recurring schedules, and zones.

What Next?

• Continue to Instantiating Routes.
• Continue to Building Routes.