Google Maps vs. Route Optimizer. When to start working with Routimo?

Google Maps is undoubtedly a good tool for planning tourist and non-commercial routes. The tool suggests a route for one vehicle and one manually selected destination, presents distances, time needed to cover the route, etc. If you are interested in finding a route from a selected point A to B for one vehicle, Google Maps will work perfectly.

Which solution to choose when we want plan routes that include multiple stops and vehicles? 

Planning company fleet routes is more demanding. Many vehicles and a multitude of points to visit make working with Google Maps time-consuming and ineffective. Planning trips for many vehicles and points requires the use of a professional route optimizer, created with the needs of transport and logistics companies in mind.

Google Maps is often confused with a tool for route optimization, meanwhile, it is a tool for determining the route. The route optimizer uses algorithms that automatically create the entire work plan, additionally taking into account many business conditions, such as: driver's working time, point opening hours, vehicle capacity, delivery schedules and many, many others.

Example: 

For simplicity, let's assume that we are planning a job for 1 driver who has to visit 20 points. The number of possible routes for this problem is 6×10 to the power of 16, or 60. Manually finding the best solution is impossible, and it is also impossible to use Google Maps for such a task.

Routimo route optimization application, thanks to the use of advanced mathematical algorithms, such a task is performed in less than 1 minute.

At work, we often deal with much more complicated tasks, where the number of points is many times greater than twenty, and the crew consists of many employees. Routimo allows automatic creation of an optimal route plan many times faster. Our cooperation with clients shows that using the Routimo application in the daily work of a planner reduces travel costs by up to 30% and service more tasks in less time.

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