One Side Road Routing – Right Side And Left Side Destinations Route Planning
Route4Me’s Right Side Routing enables enterprise businesses to optimize routes with all destinations on the right side of the road. This way, drivers and field workers don’t have to park on the opposite side of the delivery or service destination and cross over on foot. This helps to significantly improve driver safety and efficiency by minimizing the risks associated with crossing busy streets, reduce destination Service Time, prevent unsuccessful orders by reducing risk of damage, etc. Moreover, Right Side Routing provides essential access necessary for hospital route planning and non-emergency medical transport services (NEMT), and it can dramatically improve the performance of your shuttle service, tow truck company, and any business routing operation.
NOTE: Depending on real-world circumstances such as road layout, construction activity, on-the-road conditions, or unique destination features or characteristics, some destinations may only be accessible from the left. When rare exceptions such as those occur, destinations that can only be accessed from the left may be included in routes optimized with Right Side Routing.
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Enable Right Side Routing On Your Route4Me Account
To enable Right Side Route Optimization on your Enterprise Route Software account, contact your Routing Expert or the Route4Me Support Team. When Right Side Routing is enabled on your account, all routes you plan and optimize will use Right Side Routing. To plan routes with destinations on both sides of the road, contact Route4Me to disable Right Side Routing. Additionally, you can choose to plan and optimize routes with destinations only on the left when contacting Route4Me to enable right or left side routing.
Use Addresses To Plan Right Side Only Routes
When right-side or left-side routing is enabled on your Route4Me trusted route optimization software account, all routes will be planned and optimized with destinations positioned on your preferred side of the road. To plan routes, go to “Routes” and then “Plan New Route” from the Navigation Menu. Then, you can select the preferred method for adding route addresses. For your convenience, Route4Me supports multiple methods for uploading, importing, and adding addresses. Below, you can learn more about the available methods for adding route addresses.
| Options | Description |
|---|---|
| Interactive Map Editor | Pick addresses or exact location coordinates (latitude and longitude) on the interactive map and add them to your routes. Accordingly, Route4Me automatically geocodes locations and validates addresses picked from the map. |
| Copy and Paste | Copy and paste a list of addresses into Route4Me’s route mapping software. Route4Me will automatically geocode and validate the pasted addresses. |
| Upload a File | Upload a CSV, XLS, or XLSX spreadsheet with addresses from your computer or device. Route4Me will automatically detect and validate addresses in the uploaded spreadsheet. In addition to addresses, you can add to your spreadsheets such data as order details, customer information, Time Windows, etc. |
| Import Data | Import a CSV, XLS, or XLSX spreadsheet with addresses from a cloud storage or cloud drive. For example, you can upload spreadsheets from Google Drive, Dropbox, or Box. |
| Upload Scan(s) | Upload a scan with your addresses, and Route4Me will automatically detect, geocode, and validate your addresses. |
After selecting the preferred method for adding addresses, you can specify the preferred route and optimization settings. In detail, you can select a ready-to-use Optimization Profile with predefined settings. Alternatively, you can skip selecting a profile and manually customize your route and optimization settings.
To use an Optimization Profile, select the preferred profile and then click the “Continue” button to proceed to add addresses. Additionally, you can learn how to Create and Use Route4Me’s Optimization Profiles. Alternatively, click the “Skip” button to customize your route and optimization settings manually.
Plan Right Side Routes With Customer Orders
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In addition to planning routes with right-side addresses, Route4Me enables you to plan and optimize customer order routes. In detail, you can easily import orders from CRMs and other systems, manage orders, plan customer order routes in the Orders List, plan routes with geographical Order Territories, and optimize Order Groups routes. When Right Side Routing is enabled on your Route4Me account, all customer order routes will be planned and optimized with order destination addresses on the right side of the route path. This enables drivers to easily complete orders without having to cross the road on foot.
Right Side Routes With Destinations Only On The Right
When Route4Me’s Enterprise Route Optimization Software plans a single route, it’s automatically opened in the Route Editor. Route4Me’s Route Editor is the primary tool for opening, viewing, managing, and tracking individual planned routes. The image below shows the difference between planning a route with no destination location preference and a route planned with Right Side Routing. Additionally, learn more about planning last mile routes.
Furthermore, you can plan multiple routes with Route4Me’s enterprise route management software at the same time depending on the settings in the selected Optimization Profile or your manually configured optimization settings. When Right Side Routing is enabled, the simultaneously planned and optimized routes will have destinations only on the right side of the road. Additionally, the distribution of addresses between the multiple planned routes will be different when Right Side Routing is enabled compared to when it’s not enabled.
Route4Me automatically opens multiple routes planned at the same time in the Routes Map. There, you can simultaneously view and manage multiple routes on the same interactive map. In detail, you can compare routes, check route start times, move stops between routes, track route progress in real-time, track multiple drivers and vehicles on the map, and more. Additionally, learn more about planning multiple routes.
Dispatch Right Side Routes To Drivers And Vehicles
Furthermore, you can dispatch right-side routes to your drivers and vehicles. When using Optimization Profiles, routes are automatically dispatched to the driver and vehicle assigned in the used profile. Additionally, you can dispatch right-side routes to drivers and vehicles manually. To manually dispatch a route to a driver or vehicle, assign the preferred user to the route or assign the preferred vehicle to the route.
Accordingly, when a driver is assigned to a route, this driver can open and complete the route using Route4Me’s Android Route Planning App or iPhone Route Planning App. As drivers navigate and complete routes, the orders on those routes automatically change their status in real-time.
Ensure Drivers Use Right Side Route NavigationWith Advanced Configuration
After you dispatch routes to drivers and drivers start routes from Route4Me’s mobile app, it’s important to ensure drivers navigate routes as planned to benefit from Right Side Routing. While Route4Me enables drivers to use different navigation methods to navigate to the next route destination, only the in-app navigation provided by Route4Me can ensure your field members follow the route as planned.
Use the Advanced Configuration Editor to make Route4Me’s built-in navigation mandatory. To do so, click the “New Variable” button and input “DISABLE_EXTERNAL_NAVIGATION” in the “Key” field. Then, input “TRUE” in the “Value” field and click the “Save” button. If no value is entered in the “Value” field, the default “FALSE” value is used to maintain the software’s default functionality of the system and disables the respective advanced configuration.
NOTE: If you use the “DISABLE_NAVIGATION_PATH_COMPLIANCE” advanced configuration to disconnect the route path on the mobile app from that on the Web Platform, it must be set to “FALSE” to ensure the route path is followed as planned on the Web Software with Right Side Routing.
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