Unrouted Destinations – Re-Optimize Unplanned Addresses

Unrouted Destinations are locations that cannot be included in your optimized routes due to constraints like route time, distance, or the number of stops. This can occur when your business rules – also known as optimization settings – restrict the ability to fit all destinations within the planned route. Route4Me allows you to adjust these settings, recalculating routes to ensure all destinations are included in the most efficient and cost-effective way, while meeting your scheduling and operational requirements. This guide explains how.

Adjust Optimizations And Re-Optimize Unrouted Destinations

To include Unrouted Destinations that couldn’t fit into planned routes, you can adjust the constraints of the optimization that generated those routes. Go to “Operations” in the Navigation Menu and click “Optimizations“. Then click the gear icon next to the optimization you want to modify and select “Edit“.

NOTE: When using Multiple Drivers Route optimization, the system creates multiple routes under one optimization. By modifying the settings of this optimization, the system will automatically re-optimize all corresponding routes.

Open Your Optimizations

In the “Addresses” tab, you can view all addresses from the routes generated by the opened optimization. When you click on address pins in the map, you might see that some have been added to an Unrouted Destinations route.

Every address in your route has set constraints. If their constraints exceed the optimization’s limits, some addresses may not fit into the planned routes, creating Unrouted Destinations.

To adjust this, click on an unrouted address and update its constraint values. Then click the “Re-optimize” button. This will help ensure the selected address fits within the Optimization’s specified limits.

You can also apply new optimization settings to the entire route. To do this, go to the “Settings” tab. Under “Optimization Settings“, you can modify the route’s constraints. When finished, click the “Re-Optimize Now” button to apply the changes.

After applying new optimization settings, Route4Me will generate updated routes. Check the addresses on the map to ensure no Unrouted Destinations remain after re-optimization.

Use Routes Map To Add Unrouted Destinations To Routes

When you plan new routes, your Route Planner automatically creates routes based on your constraint settings. If multiple routes are planned, they appear in the Routes Map, each labeled with a Part number.

Check the box next to a route name to display it on the map. You can view data for all selected routes in the Route Summary table at the bottom of the map. Click the Gear Icon to customize the data shown. NOTE: Learn more about your Routes Map.

Open Your Routes Map

When optimization constraints are exceeded, the system creates Unrouted Destinations routes for destinations that couldn’t be included. You can manually add these destinations to planned routes.

To move a destination, click on it in the Timeline and drag it to the desired position in another route. NOTE: Optimization constraints limit route sizes. Adding unrouted destinations may cause routes to exceed these limits.

After adding an unrouted destination to a different route, click the Down Arrow button next to that route. Select “Unlink route from optimization”, then click “Re-optimize Route”.

Plan Separate Routes With Unrouted Destinations

You also have the option to use Unrouted Destinations to plan new routes. From the Routes List in your Routes Map, click on the Down Arrow button next to the Unrouted Destinations route. Then click “Unlink route from optimization“, followed by “Export“.

Export the route as a CSV. Then, in your Route Planner, upload this spreadsheet to plan a new route.