In the last few months, we have been working on a really exciting and long-desired feature: time-dependent route optimization. Our current approach uses constant travel time estimates within a day. Therefore, the solutions for vehicle routing problems are independent of time. Obviously travel times vary significantly throughout the day. Our new time-dependent Route Optimization API […]

We are happy to announce our new product: time-dependent route optimization. To illustrate what this actually means, let us assume we have a number of drivers who need to serve 40 customers in London within a time window of 2 hours. All drivers start from the airport London Heathrow and do not need to return […]

New Features The Route Optimization API now allows to specify a preparation time and returns the reason for unassigned services or shipments.

The latest release of the GraphHopper routing engine is a special one. The routing engine is no longer specific to road routing only and supports public transit routing which makes the routing heavily time dependent and much more complex. The development and integration effort was huge, nearly 9 months ago we started with this, and […]