Optimize your pickup and delivery of goods in urban areas
Home delivery is more popular than ever. Ordering goods online, getting them delivered the same or the next day – that has become the new normal. With our PTV Developer components, you can improve your pickup and delivery business and deliver more goods in a shorter time with less drivers.
As a logistics provider conducting pickups and deliveries in urban areas, your clients expect you to adhere to the agreed time window – for the pickup as well as for the delivery. You also need to make sure that you use your fleet and resources as efficiently as possible. Every additional transport on a route generates more revenue for your platform as well as for the driver. So route optimization is crucial.
With just five pickups and deliveries there are already 40 million possibilities on how to deliver the goods. Restrictions, such as capacity, driver skills or special goods add further complexity to the equation. If you want to guarantee a timely delivery and confirm a transport over the phone within seconds, you need the algorithms and high performance APIs for route optimization of PTV Developer.
This is what you achieve by planning your routes with PTV Developer
Better use of resources
By optimizing your pickup and delivery routes you can save kilometers, minimize the number of drivers and vehicles and reduce your transport costs.
Combined pickups and deliveries
PTV Developer determines an optimized combination of your deliveries and pickups and makes sure that the vehicles are utilized efficiently.
More trips in the same time
Drivers waste less time on the road, allowing them to deliver more shipments in the same amount of time. That increases your margin and enables you to be cheaper than the competition.
Happy customers
With PTV Developer’s algorithms you calculate reliable and realistic times of arrival, making sure that your customers receive their order within the agreed time window.
Faster planning
Let the algorithms do the work and receive optimized routes in seconds. Adding an order to an existing route can be done just as fast.
Happy drivers
Drivers are hard to find and keep these days. Increase their satisfaction by providing feasible routes that reduce stress and allow them to be home for dinner.
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PTV Developer’s features for successful pickup and delivery planning
High Performance Routing (HPR)
PTV’s unique and groundbreaking new method for route calculation delivers optimized routes within seconds. Instead of using road networks like other software providers, the PTV Developer algorithms are working with pre-calculated routing networks which considerably speeds up the process compared to conventional processes. Even adding a new order to an existing route only takes seconds.
Pickup and Delivery Problem (VRPDP) without depots
It doesn't matter whether the goods have to be picked up from a designated shop, a store or a hub - PTV Developer plans optimized routes even without a fixed depot.
Heterogenous fleet
Small truck, van, cargo bike – PTV Developer can account for the vehicle type when calculating routes and takes into account their different characteristics, e.g. capacity or average speed.
Customer time window
Increase customer service and satisfaction by enabling them to pick a time window for delivery.
Service times
Define adequate and realistic service times for your different types of transport.
Cost calculation
Evaluate the profitability of your business by analyzing the performance of your past trips and calculating the transport costs incurred.
Plan and optimize your pickup & delivery routes with the push of a button
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Getting started with PTV Developer
- Create your MyPTV account and activate PTV Developer (fast signup, no credit card required)
- Learn how to generate clients for PTV Developer APIs
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