Navigating hazardous material route requirements demands precision routing that accounts for building restrictions, regulatory compliance, and cargo-specific constraints. NextBillion.ai's truck-aware routing engine automatically factors in hazmat classifications, building proximity rules, and municipal restrictions—so your fleet avoids costly violations, ensures community safety, and keeps every delivery audit-ready from origin to destination. Fleet operators moving hazardous cargo through dense urban corridors, near schools, hospitals, tunnels, or industrial complexes need routing logic that goes beyond standard turn-by-turn navigation. NextBillion.ai encodes building setback rules, no-go zones, and hazmat classification restrictions directly into the road network, so dispatchers and drivers get compliant routes by default. The platform also supports vehicle-specific rules, time-of-day restrictions, and route reconstruction for audit and inspection purposes, giving compliance teams a documented trail without added manual work.
End-to-end routing tools designed to keep hazmat shipments compliant, auditable, and safe near buildings and restricted zones.
Vehicle-specific turn-by-turn navigation that accounts for hazardous cargo type, vehicle dimensions, and building proximity restrictions—automatically routing trucks away from prohibited zones and low-clearance structures.
Apply no-entry zones, road closures, and building-proximity rules directly to your routing engine via the Road Editor App, ensuring every hazmat route reflects your real operational and regulatory environment.
Reconstruct and archive complete, road-snapped hazmat trip records with timestamps and segment data—providing legally defensible route history for regulatory audits and incident investigations.
Calculate compliant travel times and distances between large sets of origins and destinations with truck-specific routing rules enforced, supporting pre-trip planning for hazmat fleets of any scale.
Monitor hazmat vehicles in real time, receive instant alerts when drivers deviate from approved routes near buildings, and maintain continuous chain-of-custody visibility from dispatch to delivery.
Generate multi-stop hazmat routes with 50+ hard and soft constraints including cargo class, building setback rules, time-of-day restrictions, and vehicle weight limits—dispatched automatically in seconds.
Hazardous material transport near buildings requires more than a standard GPS route—it demands awareness of building setback regulations, tunnel and bridge restrictions, vehicle cargo classifications, and municipal no-go zones. NextBillion.ai's routing engine encodes these constraints at the road-segment level, automatically generating compliant routes that reflect local building codes and hazmat ordinances. Whether operating through dense urban corridors or near industrial complexes, every route is calculated to protect people, property, and your compliance record. Dispatchers can configure restrictions by vehicle class, cargo type, and time of day, so a hazmat tanker and a light delivery van receive different guidance from the same system. Operations teams can also define custom no-go zones around specific buildings, schools, or hospitals using the Road Editor App. When paired with live tracking and route reconstruction, the same platform that plans the route also documents what was actually driven—supporting internal audits, regulatory inspections, and incident review without separate recordkeeping systems.
See how logistics operators and trucking fleets achieve hazmat compliance and reduce on-road risk with NextBillion.ai.
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"Rich in features, light in the pocket. NextBillion.ai is solving the complex processes of the best route for the right vehicle."
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"I admire NextBillion.ai's fast response and friendly manners whenever we need professional support in geospatial data processing. They have delivered a valuable service and support to our company that we appreciate."
"By substantially reducing the number of developer hours spent on scheduling, NextBillion.ai's MVRP and large Distance Matrix API have helped us improve our operational efficiency and increase our cost savings significantly!"
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We combine deep logistics engineering with flexible, regulation-aware routing infrastructure to solve the compliance challenges hazmat operators face every day.
Vehicle dimension and cargo-type constraints—height, weight, axle load, hazmat class—are enforced in every route calculation, eliminating guesswork near restricted buildings and bridges.
Inject building setback zones, municipal hazmat restrictions, and time-of-day no-entry rules directly into the routing engine via our no-code Road Editor App—no engineering required.
Every hazmat trip is reconstructed into a verifiable, road-snapped record with timestamps and segment data—ready for regulatory audits, incident investigations, and insurance claims.
Per-vehicle and per-order pricing means seasonal hazmat demand spikes and re-optimization cycles never translate into surprise budget overruns, unlike per-API-call models.
The founders and engineers building the world's most flexible routing platform.
Co-Founder
Ajay Bulusu is a co-founder of NextBillion.ai, bringing deep expertise in geospatial technology and large-scale location platform engineering. His journey began in 2017 as part of Grab's pioneering Geo team, where he helped build the location infrastructure underpinning one of Southeast Asia's largest mobility and logistics platforms. That experience revealed how critical — and how underserved — accurate, flexible location technology was for real-world operations. Driven by a mission to democratize sophisticated location intelligence, Ajay co-launched NextBillion.ai in 2020. Under his technical leadership, the platform has scaled to serve 150+ businesses globally, optimize over 10.9 million deliveries and field tasks, and deliver more than $11 million in documented cost savings to customers.
Co-Founder
Gaurav Bubna drives product innovation at NextBillion.ai, bringing a proven track record of building successful products from scratch across ride-hailing, food delivery, and logistics. Before co-founding NextBillion.ai, Gaurav held product leadership roles at Grab, Ola, and Morgan Stanley — organizations where location technology and operational efficiency are existential. His time on Grab's Geo team alongside Ajay and Shaolin crystallized the vision: logistics and field service businesses needed enterprise-grade location intelligence without prohibitive per-call pricing. Since launching NextBillion.ai in 2020, Gaurav has led the product evolution that has helped the platform navigate over 557 million miles and raise $34.25M in venture capital from investors including Lightspeed and Microsoft's M12.
Co-Founder
Shaolin Zheng is a co-founder of NextBillion.ai, contributing deep technical expertise in geospatial systems and scalable mapping infrastructure. Like his co-founders, Shaolin's formative experience building location technology for Grab's Geo team gave him firsthand insight into the operational gaps that generic mapping solutions leave unaddressed — particularly for field service and logistics businesses operating at scale. His engineering perspective shapes NextBillion.ai's core philosophy: location technology must be customizable, cost-predictable, and production-reliable. The platform he helped build now powers GPS tracking, route optimization, and field service intelligence for over 150 businesses worldwide, with on-premise deployment options and SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certifications ensuring enterprise-grade security.
Certain high-hazard materials—including explosives (Division 1.1, 1.2, 1.3), radioactive materials (highway route controlled quantities), and select poison-by-inhalation substances—require a written route plan under federal regulations such as 49 CFR Part 397. These plans must specify pre-approved routes, avoid populated areas and tunnels where required, and be retained for regulatory inspection. Carriers are also expected to account for state and local supplemental restrictions, which can add building setback or curfew rules on top of the federal baseline. NextBillion.ai's routing engine can enforce these pre-approved corridors automatically, applying both the federal route plan and any local overlays at the road-segment level so drivers cannot be routed outside the approved path.
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