{"id":697,"date":"2015-05-29T12:28:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T12:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portatour.com\/blog\/?p=697"},"modified":"2021-11-04T12:36:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T12:36:48","slug":"route-planning-optimized-through-historical-real-traffic-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portatour.com\/blog\/en\/route-planning-optimized-through-historical-real-traffic-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Route planning optimized through historical traffic data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order to calculate better and more realistic routes for you, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portatour.com\/en\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">portatour\u00ae<\/span><\/a>\u00a0uses historical traffic data as the basis\u00a0for its optimization algorithm. Millions of drivers have collected data that shows how quick one really travels on which street. Read more to find out why this helps you to visit more customers and spend less time on the road.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Historical traffic data&#8221; are speed data collected by navigation system and mobile phone providers through <strong>measuring the travel data of millions of drivers <\/strong>and providing\u00a0them to us for the respective road sections in the form of a big data base, which portatour\u00ae uses for route optimization.<\/p>\n<p>The use of genuine traffic flow data offers <strong>decisive advantages\u00a0<\/strong>compared to route planners that merely use the theoretically allowed speed per road type:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>journey time <\/strong>between customers can be <strong>estimated <\/strong>even <strong>more accurately<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>This provides you with better <strong>journey time predictions<\/strong> and <strong>realistic route schedules<\/strong> that actually live up to practice.<\/li>\n<li>Roads which allow only slow speeds are already in advance avoided from the automatic planning. Thus, you <strong>save travel time<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Furthermore, portatour\u00ae\u00a0allows the calculation of your routes according to your <strong>personal driving style<\/strong>. E.g. you define if you travel faster than the average driver on the motorway or if you use a van in urban areas and thus generally need more time for your routes.<\/p>\n<p>And the best: We regularly <strong>update<\/strong> the map material and traffic flow data \u2013 without extra cost or effort for you!<\/p>\n<p>Interested? Then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portatour.com\/try\/en\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\"><strong>try portatour\u00ae now<\/strong><\/span><\/a>! Request a free trial account and experience the advantages of automatic route planning for 30 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to calculate better and more realistic routes for you, portatour\u00ae\u00a0uses historical traffic data as the basis\u00a0for its optimization algorithm. Millions of drivers have collected data that shows how quick one really travels on which street. Read more to find out why this helps you to visit more customers and spend less time on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-route-planning"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portatour.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portatour.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portatour.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portatour.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portatour.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.portatour.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3739,"href":"https:\/\/www.portatour.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions\/3739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portatour.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portatour.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portatour.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portatour.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}