Route Optimization API

A route optimization API gives access to an algorithm built to solve both Single- and Multi-Vehicle Routing Problems (VRP). These are classic optimization problems that go back to the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP).  They involve finding the optimal routes for a fleet of vehicles or a team of people to visit a set of locations while satisfying a wide range of constraints such as time windows, fairness, capacity, and vehicle availability.

Advanced route optimization APIs such as OnRoute from Solvice also allow for combining orders in specific sequences and can offer live suggestions to integrate new orders into a schedule.

Where are Route Optimization APIs used?

• Field Services: Think of businesses such as metering, window cleaning, lawn care, snow removal, HVAC maintenance, and plumbing repairs to more complex, team-organized activities such as tree care, landscaping, general contracting, and painting. The most intricate schedules are found in healthcare, where mobile health practitioners coordinate activities, such as nurses preparing for a doctor’s visit or physiotherapists following up on various health-related appointments.
• Last Mile Delivery: Deliver e-commerce or other products to both residential and business locations.
• Logistics: Plan vans and trucks along the most optimal routes, also taking into account a fair spread of workload.
• Warehouse picking path optimization: A special case of route optmization can be found in laying out picking routes for workers in a warehouse. These are typically solve through a warehouse optimization API