Why Geotab Route Optimization with NextBillion.ai’s API Ensures Superior Efficiency and Cost Savings

Attention Geotab Customers! Enhance your route planning capabilities by integrating NextBillion.ai’s Route Optimization API with your Geotab system, now available through the Geotab Marketplace. Geotab Route Optimization with NextBillion.ai combines NextBillion.ai’s advanced route optimization with Geotab’s robust telematics, delivering precise and efficient route planning directly within your existing platform.

By leveraging real-time data captured by the Geotab GO Device, you can seamlessly plan and optimize complex multi-vehicle routes before dispatching them through Geotab. The result? Reduced fuel consumption, superior route accuracy, minimized vehicle wear and tear, and enhanced overall delivery performance.

Let’s dive deeper into how this integration can transform your fleet operations and provide you with a competitive edge.

What the NextBillion.ai Geotab Route Optimization Integration Does for You

Truck Routing

With NextBillion.ai’s API, you can quickly generate truck-compliant routes based on the truck dimensions (weight, height, width) and cargo type (hazardous materials vs non-hazardous materials). Prevent driver fatigue by planning routes that are Hours of Service (HOS) compliant. Ensure driver wellness by adding daily driving limits, on-duty limits, rest breaks, and off-duty time when planning multi-day truck routes.

Safe Routes

Factor in hazardous material delivery and flag theft-prone zones on the base map before calculating the routes. Mark unsafe areas. Plot safe parking spots for drivers near the working hours limit using our unique private map customization capabilities. You can use NextBillion.ai’s Geotab Route Optimization Integration to place safety and compliance guardrails to keep your cargo and truck drivers safe.

Traffic-Aware Routes

NextBillion.ai Geotab Route Optimization Integration considers real-time traffic and historical traffic data to plan optimized routes. You can plan routes that adapt to current road situations and past traffic trends. You will be able to give your fleet reliable ETAs tailored to the hour and day of the week.

Intelligent Fleet Routing

Get regulation-compliant routes for various types of trucks. NextBillion.ai’s Route Optimization API supports 50+ constraints, which allow you to account for key trucking factors.

• For instance, the ‘capacity’ attribute lets businesses define diverse vehicle capacities based on volume, weight, and more. The ‘delivery’ and ‘pickup’ attributes streamline shipment handling across the supply chain. You can use the ‘maximum tasks’ constraint to distribute tasks among vehicles to maximize fleet utilization efficiently. You can also add or remove stops as per your requirements.
• Logistics companies can leverage the ‘cost’ preference to minimize labor, fuel, and vehicle maintenance costs.
• NextBillion.ai’s Route Optimization Flexible API also provides two types of vehicle costs: per_hour and fixed costs. Fixed costs refer to the cost of using the vehicle regardless of how long it remains in use. Per-hour costs factor in the hourly cost of operating a vehicle while calculating the optimum routes.
• Other key constraints that can come in handy are ‘max travel cost’ and ‘max tasks.’ You can use these parameters to limit the usage of vehicles and prevent them from potential breakdowns, incurring unexpected high costs, or simply to control fuel consumption.
• If you want to pursue unique objectives other than minimizing travel costs, you can use NextBillion.ai’s Custom Objective. It allows you to tune the optimization algorithm to achieve the following objectives:
  • Minimize the time taken to complete the tasks
  • Minimize the number of vehicles used in the solution
  • Distribute tasks equally among all the routes
  • Distribute ‘travel cost’ equally among all the routes

Seamless Integrations

NextBillion.ai Geotab Route Optimization Integration complements Geotab’s capabilities by providing efficient and precise route planning. It enables businesses to cut costs, save time, and boost customer satisfaction through key optimization features, constraints, and re-optimization capabilities.

The Geotab Route Optimization using NextBillion.ai is a simple 5-step process:

• Set Up Geotab Application
• Integrate with Route Optimization API
• Create Optimization Job
• Retrieve Optimized Routes
• Dispatch Routes

Refer to the step-by-step integration guide – Geotab Route Optimization Integration Guide

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to elevate your fleet operations—schedule a demo today and experience the difference.