Route Planning

    Build Your Routes. Optimize the Stops. Review the Result.

    Generate routes from your passenger list and vehicle capacity, then improve the stop order within each route. Review the proposed routes and adjust them on the map before saving.

    Manual Route Planning Doesn't Scale

    Your transportation coordinator opens an Excel file at 6 AM. There are 500 students, 30 vehicles, and a bell-time change next week. They spend the next 4 hours redistributing students, checking addresses on Google Maps, and trying to keep ride times under 45 minutes. The result: some vehicles carry 40 kids on a 90-minute ride, while others run a 20-minute loop with 12.

    • Hours of manual work every time a route, stop, or schedule changes
    • Unbalanced vehicle loads — some full, others half-empty
    • No way to know if the current routes are actually the shortest possible
    • Scaling beyond 200 passengers makes manual planning practically impossible

    Fleet Route Generation and Individual Route Optimization

    Start with passenger addresses and verified map locations. Use route generation to group passengers into proposed services using location and capacity settings. To improve an existing route, open that route and use Optimize to reorder its assigned stops. Review the result, make any operational adjustments, and save it.

    Stop-Order Optimization

    Optimize the order of stops already assigned to a route using road-based routing. Review the resulting route on the map and adjust it for local access and operating needs.

    Automatic Route Generation

    Generate proposed routes from passenger locations and vehicle capacity settings. Review passenger counts and assignments before applying the result.

    Direction-Aware Optimization

    Pickup and drop-off routes are optimized separately — because the most efficient morning route isn't the reverse of the afternoon route.

    Drag-and-Drop Route Editing

    After optimization, fine-tune routes visually on an interactive map. Drag passengers between vehicles, reorder stops, and see the impact on distance instantly.

    Multi-School Route Planning

    Manage route planning for multiple schools and clients in one dashboard, with separate destinations, passenger lists, and route settings.

    Frequently Asked Questions

    Processing time depends on the operation, passenger and stop counts, and routing-service responses. Generating routes for a fleet is separate from reordering the stops in one existing route. Review and saving are additional steps.
    Yes. After optimization runs, you can drag passengers between vehicles, reorder stops, and make manual adjustments on the interactive map. The system recalculates distances and times as you edit.
    Yes. Pickup and drop-off routes are optimized separately because the most efficient morning route is rarely the reverse of the afternoon route.

    Try Route Optimization in the Live Demo

    Open the demo, go to Services, and open a student or employee route. Use "Optimize" to improve the stop order within that route, then review the result. Fleet-wide route generation is a separate operation for creating proposed services from a passenger list.

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