Enterprise-grade Routing, Purpose-built for the GCC

AI-powered route planning and optimization software purpose-built for the GCC — across last-mile delivery, cross-border trucking, oil & gas, and mega-project construction.

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Product and tech leaders in large-scale logistics companies use NextBillion.ai APIs

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Common Routing Challenges in
Middle East

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Six Countries. Six Regulatory Regimes.

A single GCC cross-border route crosses multiple legal environments simultaneously—from UAE MoEI decrees and Saudi RGA weight codes to Qatar MMUP permits and Oman ROP enforcement.

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Systems That Don’t Match the Map

Routing is fractured: Dubai uses MAKANI 10-digit geo-references, Abu Dhabi uses Onwani, and Saudi Arabia’s National Address mandate legally requires SPL-verified coordinates for shipments.

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Scaling Past Existing Tools

The region's fastest-growing operations are hitting the architectural ceilings of current routing tools—facing 25-stop limits, zero constraint handling, and no dynamic re-optimisation. Rapid growth demands new infrastructure.

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Built for the complexity the GCC actually
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Constraint-Aware Routing

Every regulation, encoded before the driver leaves the depot.

  • Hard constraint encoding
  • Smart scheduling
  • Vehicle profile routing
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GCC Cross-Border Intelligence

One route. Every country's rules applied automatically.

  • Country-segment switching
  • Border dwell times modelling
  • Unified cross-border engine

Private Road Mapping

Route to facilities that don't exist on any public map

  • Custom road editor
  • Sovereign data security
  • Private network scheduling
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AI-Powered ETA Accuracy

ETAs that reflect how operations actually run — not how they should

  • Captain-behaviour learning: AI adapts to how your drivers actually navigate
  • Massive-scale matrix
  • Granular traffic insights
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Industry Use Cases across the GCC

3PL & Freight Forwarders

Encode the full regulatory stack across all six GCC states, optimise across multiple depots and border points, and re-route in real time when delays occur.

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Trucking & Road Freight

Enforce vehicle weight, axle count, and dimension constraints at the planning stage and integrate with telematics systems for full compliance visibility.

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Last-Mile Delivery

Handle 500+ stops per optimisation call, re-route dynamically mid-shift, and route to verified SPL coordinates for compliance.

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Food Delivery & Quick-Commerce

Learn how riders actually navigate, account for seasonal traffic, balance order loads in real time, and leverage Isochrone APIs to isolate delivery zones—ensuring absolute ETA accuracy.

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Oil, Gas & Energy Companies

Multi-compartment routing, private road mapping, hazmat-compliant routing, and telematics integration that satisfies government platform requirements automatically.

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Utilities & Municipal Services

Optimise recurring routes across expanding city districts, dispatch skill-matched technicians, and coordinate multi-depot operations across millions of square kilometres with production-ready infrastructure.

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Construction

Digitise unmapped construction corridors and site access roads using Road Editor, encode oversized cargo permits and escort schedules as hard constraints, and coordinate multi-depot logistics from ports to quarries.

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Stay Compliant Across the GCC

Keep your fleets compliant with regional transport laws across every
GCC market, ensuring every route is legal, optimised, and efficient.

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United Arab Emirates

Encode UAE weight limits, corridor time windows, and vehicle profiles as hard routing constraints to seamlessly comply with Federal Decree on heavy vehicle weights, RTA's multi-corridor truck ban schedule, and Traffic Law's mandatory telematics requirements.

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Saudi Arabia

Comply with the RGA Highway Code's per-axle weight enforcement, Saudi Arabia's mandatory telematics and geofencing requirements for cross-border fleets, and the National Address mandate requiring SPL-verified delivery coordinates for all e-commerce shipments.

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GCC Cross-Border

A single route from Dubai to Riyadh to Kuwait City crosses three different legal regimes. Constraint sets switch automatically by country segment, models border dwell times as service-time buffers, and generates one compliant route for the entire journey.

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Qatar & Gulf States

Route compliantly across Qatar's MMUP permit framework, Kuwait's traffic authority requirements, and Oman's active ROP roadside enforcement. GSO regional weight and dimension standards are applied across Bahrain and emerging GCC markets, with coverage across states.

Already running at scale across the Middle
East and beyond

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How the Middle East's fastest-growing courier broke the 25-waypoint ceiling to scale daily deliveries across Saudi Arabia
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How the Middle East's leading super-app achieves precision ETAs with captain-behaviour-aware routing intelligence
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How one of the world's largest logistics providers solved truck-compliant routing and eliminated distance billing disputes across 60+ countries

Frequently asked questions

COMPLIANCE & REGULATIONS

The RTA ban schedule is encoded as hard time-window constraints in the Route Optimization API. Routes are automatically scheduled into pre-06:30 or post-20:00 windows — the system never generates a route placing a heavy vehicle on a restricted corridor during banned hours. Extended 16-hour bans and per-street restrictions are handled via custom forbidden zones in the Road Editor.

Yes. The RGA applies weight limits by axle group, not just gross vehicle weight. NextBillion.ai accepts vehicle profiles specifying axle count and per-axle load configuration, and enforces the applicable limit before any route is generated. A 5-axle truck over 45 tonnes will not receive a compliant KSA route. The violation is caught at planning, not post-dispatch.

NextBillion.ai uses multi-country constraint profiles that switch automatically by route segment. UAE rules apply in UAE, KSA rules in KSA. Border dwell times are modelled as service-time buffers so cross-border ETAs reflect actual journey time including expected inspection delays at each crossing point.

PLATFORM & INTEGRATION

Most integrations complete within one sprint — typically one to two weeks. The APIs are REST-based with comprehensive documentation, sandbox environments, and ME-specific code samples. We provide solutions engineering support during onboarding, including pre-configured constraint profiles for UAE and KSA compliance ready from your first API call.

Yes. Fleet Hub integrates with all major telematics providers. Live vehicle location, driver identity, and speed data feed directly into route optimisation and compliance monitoring — satisfying UAE Traffic Law 2025 telematics requirements and KSA's cross-border fleet data mandate from a single platform.

The Road Editor lets you draw, import, or upload custom road segments as a private map layer — oilfield access roads, construction corridors, port routes, industrial zone internal roads. Once digitised, every dispatch, ETA, and navigation instruction uses your network. Updates can be made by your operations team without engineering involvement.

SCALE & PERFORMANCE

500 stops per optimisation call. The standard waypoints API ceiling is 23–25. For Saudi Arabia last-mile operators running 50–60 driver stops per shift, this eliminates manual route splitting entirely. Response time is consistently under 5 seconds across the full range.

Up to 5,000 × 5,000 origin-destination pairs in a single API call, versus the 25×25 ceiling of many alternatives. All results are traffic-aware by default, with historical traffic modelled in 15-minute buckets and custom departure time support for pre-planned shipments.

At the API call volumes typical of GCC fleet operations, NextBillion.ai delivers 60–80% cost reduction versus Google Maps Platform. More significantly, Google Maps has no truck weight profiles, no time-window constraints, no private map layers, and no on-premise deployment option. For enterprise logistics, the difference is structural.

DATA & DEPLOYMENT

Yes. Full on-premise deployment runs the entire routing stack — map data, optimisation engine, and APIs — on your own infrastructure. This is available for Aramco and ADNOC-adjacent contractors with data governance requirements, Saudi government-adjacent logistics operations, and any operator where route or driver data cannot leave a controlled environment.

No. Customer query data is not retained after API calls are processed. Route data is returned without persistent storage. For on-premise deployments, all data remains entirely within your infrastructure. We are SOC 2, GDPR, and ISO 27001 compliant.

Enterprise contracts include 24/7 support, a dedicated solutions engineer through integration, and proactive compliance updates when GCC regulations change. When new mandates are enacted — UAE Traffic Law amendments, KSA telematics extensions, National Address updates — enterprise customers receive constraint updates and implementation guidance before enforcement dates apply.

AI-Powered Routing, Built for the
Middle East

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