Route Optimization & Real-Time Traffic

Provide an efficient route for your drivers with turn-by-turn directions, real-time traffic, and by displaying real-time traffic along a route. This can help create more efficient deliveries, a more seamless drop-off and pickup experience, and lower fuel, vehicle and employee costs.

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Create optimized routes for complex itineraries

Calculate up to 625 routes, and find optimized routes for up to 25 waypoints, using toll costs and info on distances between warehouses, distribution centers, customers and the closest dispatch vehicles.

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Optimize for fuel savings

Provide optimized eco-friendlier routes for lower fuel consumption. Select engine type and enable real-time traffic information to get the most accurate fuel or energy efficiency estimates.

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Dispatch the closest driver by ETA or distance

Use Distance Matrix with real-time traffic to determine the right driver for each pickup or delivery. Then, provide directions and ETAs by correcting driver locations, using Roads.

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Helpful features

Eco-friendlier routing

Provide routes optimized for fuel efficiency based on engine type and real-time traffic.

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2-wheel vehicle routing

Access 2-wheel routes for motorized vehicle rides and delivery routing.

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Tolls data

Get more accurate route pricing based on toll costs by pass or vehicle type, such as EV or hybrid.

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Products built for optimized route planning

Custom map of Manhattan with a variety of locations

Dynamic Maps

Essentials

Customize and style interactive maps using Cloud-based maps styling for real time updates across all devices and platforms.

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Android iOS JS

Dynamic Street View

Pro

Embed real-world imagery with 360° panoramas.

Android iOS JS

Static Street View

Essentials

Embed a static (non-interactive) Street View panorama or thumbnail into your web page, without the use of JavaScript.

API

Driving route mapped out with distance and gas costs

Compute Routes

Essentials Pro Enterprise

Provide directions with real-time traffic for transit, biking, driving, 2-wheel motorized vehicles, or walking between multiple locations.

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API

Map with a variety of routes with multiple destination points

Compute Routes Matrix

Essentials Pro Enterprise

Calculate travel times and distances for multiple destinations for up to 625 route elements.

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API

Roads

Pro

Determine the route a vehicle travels.

API

Route Optimization

Pro Enterprise

Optimize multi-stop routes for one or more vehicles flexibly and intelligently.

API

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Address Validation

Pro Enterprise

Validate an address and its components, standardize the address for mailing, and determine the best known geocode for it.

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API

Autocomplete

Essentials Pro

Help users quickly find the exact place they’re looking for by automatically suggesting businesses and points of interest as they type.

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Android iOS API JS

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See how Route4Me plans and optimizes routes with Google Maps Platform

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We needed the best mapping partner for our global expansion, and that meant Google Maps Platform. There's simply no better choice. We needed easy integration of quality maps, accurate route calculation, journey time estimates, assistance with addresses, everything. Nothing compares to Google Maps Platform.

Egor Fedorov COO, inDriver

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