While map updates in recent years have “only” ever updated the map material including traffic flow data, there is much more in today’s software update. In addition to updating the data, we have invested a lot of programming effort in the map display, address geocoding and route calculation.<\/p>\n
Since 2015, portatour\u00ae has used historical speed data to calculate driving times. This data is collected by navigation systems and mobile phone providers by measuring the movement data of millions of drivers and is made available for the respective road sections.<\/p>\n
What’s new with today’s update is that portatour\u00ae estimates driving times to be considerably slower than previously on those road sections where traffic flow data often show traffic jams or heavy traffic.<\/p>\n
As a result, roads with a high probability of traffic jams are avoided when calculating the schedule or are planned with longer travel times than previously. The schedules are therefore even more realistic and robust for dealing with unforeseen traffic situations.<\/p>\n
You will already notice a difference with today’s first schedule update.<\/p>\n
If you have set the “Driving Speed” to “slower” in the portatour\u00ae Anywhere Options, we recommend that you now reset it to “normal” so that portatour\u00ae does not estimate unnecessarily long driving times.<\/p>\n