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NextBillion.ai vs. Google’s Cloud Fleet Routing

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What sets NextBillion.ai apart

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Integration Flexibility

Easily Integrate with third-party tech or map stacks

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Reoptimizations

Unlimited Re-optimizations within 24 hours

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Customizability

Proprietary solutions enable custom routes tailored to use cases

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Soft Constraints

Supports vehicle overtime, maximum waiting time, etc

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Truck Customizations

Truck-specific customizations available

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Historical Traffic Data

Incorporates historical traffic data

Head-to-head feature comparison

Features NextBillion.ai Route Optimization API Google’s Cloud Fleet Routing
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Truck-Based Optimization tick tick
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Historical Traffic Data tick tick
Proprietary Tools tick tick
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Vehicle Capacities tick Limited
Skills tick Limited
Jobs Parameters tick Limited
Reoptimization Limit No limit Limit of 20 per day
Cost-Based Optimization tick tick
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NextBillion.ai - Feature Summary

Features Description
Supported Number of Locations 2000
Vehicle Profile Parameters Parameters that define vehicle characteristics
- Vehicle Capacities Support to define multidimensional capacities.
Capacities can be defined in various units like
- Volume
- Weight
- Number of items or persons for a single vehicle.
- Skills Used to define skills and capacity of a vehicle or a person.
For example, in a mixed fleet scenario, one can append
- Skill A to denote vehicles designed for cold storage
- Skill B to denote shipment of hazardous chemicals
- Skill C to denote X volume of capacities.
- Break Defined time period during which a break can be taken.
Only one break can be taken per vehicle in RO V2.
- Cost Calculates the cost associated with each vehicle.
Cost could be defined in terms of distance or duration.
One can also set ‘maximum cost’ per vehicle while optimizing the route.
- Time Windows Defined time period within which the specified vehicle can operate.
- Truck-Based Optimizations Routes can be optimized based on truck dimensions like truck height and size. Truck capacities can be factored in to get tailor-made routes.
Job Parameters Parameters that define job characteristics
- Time Windows Delivery time windows within which the job should be completed.
- Priority Assign priorities for corresponding jobs and final routes will be optimized accordingly
- Skills Specify the skills needed to complete that job.
- Service Duration Define the time period that should be taken to complete the corresponding job.
Other Parameters
- Define Soft Constraints Define soft constraints for jobs based on which routes will be optimized.
Note that soft constraints aren’t a limiting factor while optimizing but the
solver will do its best to factor in these constraints.
Soft constraints may include:
A. Maximum waiting time
B. Maximum vehicle lateness
C. Maximum Vehicle Overtime
- Optimization Objective One can optimize routes for any of the following:
A. Shorter duration (or)
B. Shorter Distance
C. Air Distance (Comes handy in case of drone deliveries )
D. Custom parameters
- Routing Option Ability to define ‘time-dependent’ or time-independent routing.
- Define Relations Ability to set preferred sequence between tasks or jobs based on a pre-determined condition. When this option is included, the solver would generate optimized routes based on the relations defined.
- Reoptimization Feature Reoptimize existing route based on ad-hoc or real-time constraints without re-running the solver for all locations again.
- Departure Time Ability to define departure time windows based on historical traffic data.

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