Route Planner calculates the optimal (best, shortest) driving route when there are multiple places to visit. You can enter upto 8 places other than start and end location. These 8 places could be input in any order. Route Planner will re-order places that result into optimized route. It also provides driving directions supplied by Google Maps.
Pick Up - Pick Up is for the situation when a vehicle would pick up people from different places and bring them to a common location. This scenario would be common when employer provided cabs would pick up people from their addresses to office. In this case, different people spend different time duration and distance on the trip. First person being picked up will spend the maximum time duration and distance on the trip. For effective planning employers may choose to limit duration and distance travelled by their employees during pick up. Inputs like “Waypoint Duration”, “Waypoint Distance”, “Total Duration” and “Total Distance” help with route planning considering individual and total trip duration and distance.
Drop Off - Drop Off is for the situation when a vehicle would drop people to their address after starting from a common location. This scenario would be common when employer provided cabs would drop people to their addresses from office. In this case, different people spend different time duration and distance on the trip. Last person being dropped will spend the maximum time duration and distance on the trip. For effective planning employers may choose to limit duration and distance travelled by their employees during drop off. Inputs like “Waypoint Duration”, “Waypoint Distance”, “Total Duration” and “Total Distance” help with route planning considering individual and total trip duration and distance.
Multi Stop Travel - When stops during the trip are not meant for pick up and drop off. It’s simply a trip through multiple places. Inputs like “Waypoint Duration”, “Waypoint Distance”, “Number of Vehicles” and “Vehicle Seating Capacity” are not requested in this trip type.
Ride2.Work’s Route Planner creates optimized routing for up to 8 intermediate travel points. Different factors like duration, distance, vehicle capacity and number of vehicles govern efficient routing and vehicle fleet utilization. With Ride2.Work one just needs to provide the intermediate travel points and the governing parameters. Ride2.Work calculates number of trips required to cover all the travel points, with each route optimized.
Optimized routing requires numerous calculations. As an example if there are ‘n’ locations to visit in a round trip, there are (n-1)! possible round trips to choose the optimal route from.
Current web application of Ride2.Work hence provides free optimized routing for only 8 locations. In future Ride2.Work will add more locations to this free service. To use Ride2.Work for more than 8 locations, please write to routing@ride2.work.
Google Maps is used for geocoding and driving directions. If the address entered cannot be geocoded by Google Maps, Ride2.Work would set error as “Place contains no geometry”. Please correct the address and submit again.
During pick up, "Waypoint Duration" represents the duration spent by the person boarding the vehicle to reach the end location.
During drop off, "Waypoint Duration" represents the duration spent by the person from the start location to the place being dropped.
During pick up, "Waypoint Distance" represents the distance travelled by the person boarding the vehicle to reach the end location.
During drop off, "Waypoint Distance" represents the distance travelled by the person from the start location to the place being dropped.