Enterprise-grade Routing, Purpose-built for Europe
AI-powered route planning and optimization software purpose-built for Europe across last-mile delivery, cross-border trucking, field services, hazmat, and waste collection.
Product and tech leaders in large-scale logistics companies use NextBillion.ai APIs
Common Routing Challenges in Europe
320+ Low Emission Zones. One Routing API.
A delivery van entering Paris, Berlin, or Milan without LEZ-aware routing risks automatic fines of up to €280 per trip.
Seven Regulatory Regimes. One Cross-Border Route.
A single truck run from Amsterdam to Milan crosses 4+ zones simultaneously, creating delays and compliance risks.
Geocoding That
Works.
Localized European address quirks that cause major headaches for standard GPS and geocoding systems, costing £11–£17 for every reattempt.
Built for the Complexity Europe
Actually Operates In
LEZ & UVAR-Aware Routing
Every Low Emission Zone encoded. Every vehicle class matched.
- Real-time vehicle Euro class constraint routing
- ICE vehicles auto-rerouted around restricted zones
- ZEZ pass-through for EVs and cargo bikes
Cross-Border EU Intelligence
One route. Every country's rules applied automatically.
- Country-segment rule switching
- EC 561/2006 driver hours built into multi-day trip planning
- Smart Tachograph 2-compatible route history output
Routes compliant with local and national regulations
Truck and cargo complaint routes for your fleet.
- On-premise and sovereign cloud deployment
- Per-route CO₂ metadata aligned for CSRD reporting
- ADR tunnel category enforcement automatically blocks non-compliant roads
AI-Powered ETA Accuracy
ETAs that reflect how your drivers actually navigate.
- Captain-behaviour learning
- Pedestrian zone, one-way and residential timing restrictions
- Seasonal and event-based traffic modelling
- Sub-second Distance Matrix at unlimited QPS
Industry Use Cases Across Europe
3PL & Freight Forwarders
Encode the full EU regulatory stack across multi-depot, multi-country operations, and re-route in real time when delays occur.
- Constraint-aware routing across EU-27 and UK in a single API call
- Tachograph-compatible route history output for G2V2 compliance
- 5000×5000 distance matrix for depot network optimisation and tender preparation
- On-premise deployment for competitively sensitive route data
Long-Haul & Cross-Border Trucking
Enforce vehicle weight, height, axle count and ADR tunnel category constraints at the planning stage. Country-specific restrictions are applied automatically by country segment.
- HGV routing with weight, height, ADR and Euro emission class constraints
- Toll-cost-aware routing across Maut, Péage, Pedaggio and Autopistas
- EC 561/2006 driver hours: rest stops planned before the driver leaves the depot
- eFTI-ready route data output for cross-border digital freight documentation from 2027
Last-Mile Delivery
Handle 500+ stops per optimisation call with LEZ-aware vehicle assignment, EU-tuned geocoding across entries, and real-time ETA recalculation for live customer tracking pages.
- LEZ/UVAR vehicle-class routing: ICE, EV and cargo bike auto-assigned by zone eligibility
- EU-tuned geocoding handles address formats across all 27 member states
- Dynamic re-optimisation on failed delivery attempts mid-shift
- Custom POI layers for carrier and retailer networks
Q-Commerce & Food Delivery
Achieve sub-30-minute delivery promises by learning how riders actually navigate — accounting for pedestrian zones, one-way streets, and apartment complex entry points specific to European cities.
- Sub-second Distance Matrix at unlimited QPS for real-time order batching and dispatch
- Cycling lane, pedestrian zone and e-bike speed profile routing
- Last-50-metre routing in dense apartment blocks and gated urban developments
- Isochrone API for dark store coverage zone analysis and expansion planning
Field Service Management
Route certified technicians to skill-matched jobs across dispersed assets — from smart meter installations and EV charger rollouts to lift maintenance and telecom infrastructure.
- Skills, certification and parts-availability constraints built into technician dispatch routing
- Isochrone API for service territory design and technician base location planning
- EV charger installer dispatch: Fit-for-55 rollout programmes demand large certified workforces
Waste Collection & Environmental Services
Dynamic route optimisation triggered by smart bin fill-level sensors. Vehicle-type-specific routing for rear-loaders, side-loaders and roll-off trucks — with LEZ compliance for the shift to electric and CNG collection fleets.
- Route optimisation with vehicle-type, container-type and collection frequency constraints
- Real-time re-routing triggered by smart bin IoT sensor fill-level alerts
- Multi-stream collection scheduling for EU Waste Framework Directive separation mandates
Construction, Materials & Bulk Distribution
Encode curing-window time constraints and plant-to-site routes that respect HGV weight limits, bridge restrictions and private site access roads invisible to public mapping APIs.
- Curing-window constraints
- Oversized load routing for wind turbines, steel frames and prefab modules
- Road Editor / Custom Maps for private construction site and quarry access roads
- Heating oil and bulk fuel routing with tank capacity and rural access matching
PATIENT TRANSPORT SERVICES
Automate strict vehicle-patient matching by accessibility type while optimizing shared-ride capacity. Prevent contractual fines from missed hospital appointments while maintaining compliance with regional healthcare data regulations.
- Accessibility-based matching matrix
- Shared-ride optimization algorithms for multi-patient shift planning
- Hard appointment time-window constraints with automated buffers
- Localized infrastructure compliant with local requirements
RIDE HAILING, MOBILITY & MAAS
Enforce millimeter-precise ETA quotes that account for European pedestrian zones, one-way streets, and LEZ-restricted corridors. Scale driver-rider matching at millisecond latency without unsustainable API costs or peak-hour rate limits.
- Sub-second Distance Matrix API at unlimited QPS
- White-label navigation SDK for custom in-driver apps
- GDPR-compliant EU data hosting and regional isolation
Enterprise-grade privacy
and security
- SOC 2 type II-certified
- Multi-Factor Authentication
- GDPR- and CCPA-compliant
- Single sign-on
- Custom data retention controls
- Audit logs
- Encryption at rest and in transit
- Role-based access controls
Stay Compliant Across the Europe
Germany
Enforce German Maut toll routing, LEZ class restrictions across 60+ cities, HGV overnight motorway bans, and Smart Tachograph 2 logging. All constraints apply automatically based on vehicle profile before departure.
France
Comply with French Péage tolls, ZFE-m zones across 40+ communes, weekend HGV bans, and Mont Blanc/Fréjus tunnel ADR restrictions. Rules adapt automatically to vehicle Euro class and load type.
Italy
Navigate ZTL restrictions and regional LEZs in Milan, Rome, and Turin. Apply Autostrade Pedaggio toll routing, enforce Alpine tunnel ADR categories, and manage restricted HGV access on mountainous secondary roads.
Netherlands
Handle Dutch milieuzones in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Utrecht alongside low-traffic neighborhood rules. Encode toevoeging address formats for precise last-mile delivery, with dedicated cycling lane and cargo bike routing.
United Kingdom
Comply with London's ULEZ, Clean Air Zones in Birmingham, Bath and Bristol, and Scotland's LEZ network. UK data residency option keeps location data in-country to comply with GDPR mandates.
EU Cross-Border
Sync Dutch milieuzones, German Maut, Polish tolls, and Smart Tachograph 2 border logging on a single run. Automatically switch regulatory sets by country segment to maintain Mobility Package cabotage and rest-time compliance.
Frequently asked questions
COMPLIANCE & REGULATIONS
Driver-hours, cabotage, and posted-driver rules are encoded as hard
constraints in the Route Optimization API. Routes respect the 9-hour daily
driving limit (extendable to 10 hours twice per week), the 11-hour daily
rest, the 45-hour weekly rest, and the 3-operations-in-7-days cabotage cap
from Regulation 2020/1054 and 2020/1055. From 1 July 2026, LCVs over 2.5
tonnes operating in international transport or cabotage fall under the
Smart Tachograph 2 (G2V2) mandate; route-segment metadata aligns with G2V2
position-logging, automatic border-crossing recording, and 56-day data
retention requirements. Tachograph violations carry fines up to €30,000
and cabotage breaches up to €10,000 per infringement.
Yes. NextBillion.ai maintains a custom map layer covering 320+ UVARs
across Europe — including Paris ZFE, London ULEZ, Brussels LEZ, Madrid ZBE,
Milan Area C, Berlin Umweltzone, Glasgow LEZ, and Stockholm Class 3.
Vehicle eligibility per destination zone is evaluated before dispatch,
and mixed-fleet routing automatically selects the compliant vehicle class
— diesel van, electric LCV, or cargo bike — per zone rules. Pre-trip
eligibility checks prevent per-violation fines that range from €68 in
Paris to €350 in Brussels and £180 daily in London. The European LEZ
count grew 40% in three years; map updates are continuous.
NextBillion.ai uses multi-country constraint profiles that switch
automatically by route segment. German LKW-Maut tolling and CO₂-based
charging apply in Germany; French Crit'Air enforcement and autoroute péages
in France; Austrian GO-Box and sectoral Tyrol bans in Austria; Belgian
Viapass kilometre-charging in Belgium. Posted Workers Directive operations
are auto-classified as cabotage, cross-trade, bilateral, or transit per
Regulation 2020/1057, driving the correct IMI declaration trigger.
ADR tunnel-category restrictions, eFTI-ready shipment metadata, and
EN ISO 14083:2023 CO₂ output are returned in a single response —
supporting the 9 July 2027 eFTI Regulation deadline and CSRD Scope 3
reporting in parallel.
PLATFORM & INTEGRATION
Most integrations complete within one sprint — typically one to two
weeks. The APIs are REST-based with comprehensive OpenAPI documentation,
sandbox environments, and EU-specific code samples. Pre-configured
constraint profiles for Mobility Package compliance, LEZ rules, and
country-by-country toll networks are available from your first API call.
Solutions engineering support is included during onboarding for direct
integration with TMS platforms (Transporeon, Shippeo, Alpega, Descartes,
project44) and eCMR partners preparing for eFTI 2027 certification.
Yes. Fleet Hub integrates with the major European telematics providers
— Webfleet (Bridgestone), Geotab EMEA, Microlise, Trimble Transport, and
others. Live vehicle location, driver identity, working-time records, and
speed data feed directly into route optimisation and compliance monitoring.
The same data stream supports Smart Tachograph 2 reconciliation, Posted
Workers Directive audit trails, and CSRD Scope 3 emissions reporting from
a single platform.
The Road Editor lets you draw, import, or upload custom road segments
as a private map layer — port terminals (Rotterdam, Antwerp, Hamburg,
Le Havre), industrial parks, chemical plant networks, construction sites,
and ADR-restricted corridors. Once digitised, every dispatch, ETA, and
navigation instruction uses your network. Updates can be made by your
operations team without engineering involvement, and changes deploy
without redeploying client applications.
SCALE & PERFORMANCE
500 stops per optimisation call, with up to 50+ hard and soft
constraints applied per route. The standard waypoints API ceiling at most
alternatives is 23–25. For EU parcel and grocery operators running 100–500
stops per route through dense urban LEZ environments, this eliminates
manual route splitting entirely. Response times stay under 5 seconds
across the full range, including LEZ eligibility evaluation and vehicle-
class matching per destination zone.
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. This unlocks
EU-wide transportation procurement events, depot-network design, and
sales-territory optimisation at scales most operators cannot run on
consumer mapping platforms.
At the API call volumes typical of EU fleet operations, NextBillion.ai
delivers 60–80% cost reduction versus Google Maps Platform. More
significantly, Google Maps has no truck weight or dimension profiles,
no LEZ-aware routing, no Mobility Package or cabotage constraints, no
private map layers, and no on-premise deployment option. For EU
enterprise logistics — especially under GDPR, Schrems II, and the EU
Data Act — the difference is structural, not just commercial.
DATA & DEPLOYMENT
EU customer workloads run on EU-hosted infrastructure in Frankfurt
and Dublin. NextBillion.ai is GDPR-compliant with a published Data
Processing Addendum, EU Standard Contractual Clauses, sub-processor
disclosure, and ISO 27001 and SOC 2 attestations. Personal data transfers
are governed by EU SCCs aligned with Schrems II requirements. For
organisations under NIS2 essential-entity obligations (transposed October
2024) or EU Data Act scope (in force September 2025), the same
architecture supports 24-hour incident reporting, supply-chain risk
controls, and access-control audit trails.
Yes. Full on-premise deployment runs the entire routing stack — map
data, optimisation engine, and APIs — on your own infrastructure. This is
available for public-sector contracts requiring national data sovereignty,
defence-adjacent logistics, chemical and energy companies with strict
data governance, NHS Patient Transport Service providers and EU equivalents
under health-data residency rules, and any operator where route or driver
data cannot leave a controlled environment.
Yes. AI components — ETA prediction, route optimisation, driver
assignment, and dispatch — are documented with model cards covering
training methodology, data sources, post-market monitoring, and human-in-
the-loop options. High-risk AI obligations under Regulation 2024/1689
apply from 2 August 2026; fines can reach €15M or 3% of global turnover
for high-risk breaches and €35M or 7% for prohibited practices.
NextBillion.ai documentation, governance, and audit-trail capabilities
are aligned with these requirements ahead of the deadline.
COUNTRY-SPECIFIC COVERAGE
Yes. The truck routing API costs every German route at LKW-Maut tariffs
— €0.17–€0.35/km depending on emissions class and axles — including the
CO₂-based component introduced in December 2023. Since 1 July 2024,
vehicles ≥3.5t (down from ≥7.5t) fall under the toll, and Toll Collect
OBU data integrates directly. MiLoG compliance is supported via Posted
Workers Directive constraint profiles aligned with the €13.90/hr minimum
wage in force from January 2026 (rising to €14.60 in 2027). Custom map
layers cover the 50+ German Umweltzonen including Berlin, Hamburg, Munich,
Stuttgart, and Cologne. Frankfurt data residency, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and
EU SCCs are available off the shelf for DACH enterprise procurement.
Yes. NextBillion.ai supports France's Crit'Air system across all 11+
ZFE-m (Zones à Faibles Émissions mobilité) — Grand Paris, Lyon, Marseille,
Toulouse, Strasbourg, Grenoble, Reims, Rouen, Saint-Étienne, Montpellier,
and Nice. Vehicle profiles match the 6-tier sticker requirement, and
pre-trip eligibility checks prevent the €68–€450 per-violation fines.
Posted Workers Directive operations are declared via the EU IMI portal
(which replaced the French SIPSI portal in February 2022), with SMIC
(€1,823/month gross, 2026) and CCNTR sector pay tables driving driver-cost
calculations. National A-network tolls and péage operators (Vinci, APRR,
Sanef, ATMB) are encoded in route cost outputs.
NextBillion.ai supports the full UK Clean Air Zone landscape —
London ULEZ (£180 daily for light vehicles, £1,000+ for non-compliant
HGVs), CAZ in Birmingham, Bristol, Sheffield, Newcastle, Tyneside,
Bradford, and Portsmouth, plus Scottish LEZs in Glasgow, Edinburgh,
Aberdeen, and Dundee. Post-Brexit GB↔EU movements are supported via
Goods Vehicle Movement Service (GVMS) integration and the Border Target
Operating Model phase-in. Although the UK sits outside the EU regulatory
perimeter, customers operating cross-border fleets get the same Mobility
Package, ADR, eFTI, and CSRD handling for the EU side of their network
from a single API.
Yes. NextBillion.ai is ready for the Dutch Vrachtwagenheffing — the
HGV kilometre charge starting 2027 that replaces Eurovignet for vehicles
≥12t — with cost outputs designed to surface the new charge alongside
existing tariffs. Milieuzones in 14+ cities (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht,
Den Haag, Eindhoven, Arnhem, Breda, Maastricht) are encoded in the LEZ
custom map layer with diesel HGV class restrictions per zone. WagwEU and
CAO Beroepsgoederenvervoer compliance is supported, with the €14.71/hr
minimum wage (January 2026) embedded in driver-cost calculations. Custom
map data covers the port complexes at Rotterdam (Maasvlakte, Botlek) and
Amsterdam, which most public datasets miss.
Yes. NextBillion.ai navigates Italian ZTL (Zona a Traffico Limitato)
constraints across hundreds of historic centers — Rome, Florence, Milan,
Bologna, Naples, Venice, Verona, Turin — with vehicle-class and permit-
based access logic encoded per zone. Milan Area B and Area C charges
(€5 daily for Area C) and ANPR enforcement camera locations are included
in the LEZ custom map layer. CCNL Trasporti sector pay tables (Italy has
no statutory minimum wage) are supported through Posted Workers Directive
operation classification, with IMI declaration triggering per Regulation
2020/1057 — mandatory in Italy since February 2022. Italy's national AI
Act (Law 132/2025, in force since 10 October 2025) is addressed in
NextBillion.ai's high-risk AI documentation.
Yes. NextBillion.ai supports Spain's DGT environmental label system
(0, ECO, C, B) across all 149 cities mandated to operate a Zona de Bajas
Emisiones (ZBE) since 2023 — including Madrid Central, Barcelona ZBE
Rondas, Valencia, Sevilla, and Zaragoza. Vehicle eligibility per ZBE is
evaluated pre-dispatch to prevent the €200-tier fines. SMI compliance
(€1,221/month gross from January 2026, paid across 14 instalments) and
sector-agreement pay tables feed Posted Workers Directive declarations
via Spain's RED portal, with fines €1,000–€10,000 per infringement.
National autopista tolls and the free-flow electronic toll systems are
encoded in route costs.
