Our wide-ranging routing module helps you to find the best route for your vehicle.
Overview
The routing module offers you the possibility to route between multiple destinations and find the best route. You can use a pre-defined routing profile or set a variety of routing options by yourself. Besides standard functions like setting a departure time, there are a lot more functions which especially come in handy on truck routing or special transports. For example you can set the size of your vehicle, its load or restrictions. To use all functions you need to have unlocked the module Truck routing. You can use the routing module without it, but you won't be able to use all its functions.
Routes which have been planned can be saved and assigned to vehicles. Do you have routes that you drive regularly? Then it might be useful to save them as a preset. This allows the driver to start it at any time on the display. The route will be used exactly like you planned it. This is especially useful for special transports like e.g. heavy haulage, which have to take a pre-defined route.
Routing profiles
A routing profile is a group of routing options, like e.g. the size and weight of the vehicles, its emission class, information about its load or which kind of streets it's allowed to take. YellowFox offers a set of pre-defined profiles. Of course you can also define your own profiles or alter the existing ones.
Create a routing profile
To create a routing profile, click on the gear symbol next to the profile selection in the tab "Planning". A dialog will open. On the left side you will see all routing profiles which are available. This includes the profiles which were pre-defined by YellowFox, but also your custom ones. To edit a profile, simply click on it. To create a new one, just click on the Button "Create new routing profile". Now you will see the values of the selected profile on the right side. Each profile has a name and a variety of routing options. These influence how the route is calculated. For example the size or load of your vehicle might alter the available routes. At vehicle assignment you can assign the profile to a vehicle. It will be used on doing a distance request for the vehicle. Vehicles which do not have an assigned profile, will use the companies default profile. You can set here which profile will be the default profile.
Click on "save changes" to submit your changes. You can not directly alter the pre-defined profiles, but you can save a copy of them.
Use a routing profile
The routing module uses the companies default profile by default. You can set this at adminsitration → map → map setting or in the profile management. While doing a routing, you can change the profile at any time. Open the routing options to see all values and maybe alter them. Changes during routing will not be saved to the profile, but can help you to quickly check how other parameters change your results. For example you could test if the route will change if your load is a bit heavier.
Delete a routing profile
To delete a profile, you have to open the profile management again. Use the action menu at each profile to delete it. Pre-defined profiles can not be removed.