Route Compliance Tracking Polyline – Route Adherence, Planned And Not Visited, Deviations And Detours Detection

To maximize your routing efficiency, ensure that your drivers comply with planned and optimized routes. Route4Me’s compliance tracking enables you to see if planned routes are followed, when and where deviations and detours occur, how much of the planned route was completed, and more. Furthermore, real-time tracking updates through the Route4Me Mobile Apps or GPS vehicle telematics tracking provide exact tracking data you can view on your enterprise route management software. Specifically, get actionable intelligence, such as percentage and distance of the planned route that was and wasn’t traveled. This helps with performance assessment, provides auditing data, allows you to streamline your operations, prevent fraud, and more. Additionally, by tracking deviations and detours, you can ensure drivers stay out of avoidance zones, comply with optimization settings like avoiding left turns, save fuel, and complete routes with maximum efficiency.

Enable Route Compliance – View Route Travel Data And Deviations

When you view route compliance on Route4Me’s Business Route Software, each portion of the respective route is highlighted corresponding to its planned and traveled status. Specifically, parts of the route that were traveled in compliance with the planned route are marked in blue, and any detours and deviations are marked in red. You can learn more about enabling, viewing, and exporting compliance data and analytics further in this guide.

To view a field employee’s driving path, walking path, or cycling path, open the respective route in the Route Editor. To do so, go to “Routes” and then “Routes List” from the Navigation Routes. Next, click the Open Icon next to the preferred route. Alternatively, right-click the route or click the Three-Dot Icon next to the route and then select “Open Route” from the menu. The route will open in the Route Editor.

After opening the preferred route in the Route Editor, click the Tracking Icon to open the tracking options menu. Then, enable the “Tracking Path” option and “Deviations” sub-option. The route travel path of the field employee is marked with a blue line on the map, and any deviations from the planned route path are marked with a red line. Additionally, learn more about the other options in the “Tracking” menu in the table below.

Moreover, to ensure the respective route’s planned travel path is shown, click the Map Layers Icon. Then, check the “Driving Lines” box to display the planned and optimized route path and corresponding travel direction arrows.

Compliance Tracking Metrics – Track Deviation Distance And Percentage

Furthermore, to track compliance with maximum efficiency and precision, Route4Me provides detailed route compliance metrics. The tracking panel displayed in the lower left of the Route Editor map shows the following metrics.

Compliance Tracking With Mobile App Tracking Data

The Route4Me Mobile Route Planner for iOS and Android uses location services to update a vehicle’s position in the system. This allows you to track field employees and their route compliance in real-time. To view tracking data from the Route4Me mobile app, click the Tracking Icon in the Route Editor map. Then, click “Tracking Source” from the tracking options menu and select “Route4Me“. Along with Route4Me’s Geofencing functionality, mobile app tracking provides up-to-the-minute data on a fleet vehicle’s position, destination arrival and departure coordinates, and much more.

Additionally, you can adjust mobile app compliance and navigation settings with Route4Me’s Advanced Configuration Editor.

Compliance Tracking With Telematics GPS Data

Alternatively, a telematics connection between your Route4Me account and a telematics vendor enables you to track vehicles on the map in real-time and check route tracking history. Specifically, Route4Me will automatically collect the telematics data from the GPS trackers and telematics devices installed on your fleet vehicles and display it on the map. To view tracking data from your telematics provider, click the Tracking Icon in the Route Editor map. Then, click “Tracking Source” from the tracking options menu and select your telematics provider. Together with Route4Me’s Geofencing functionality, telematics tracking provides up-to-the-minute data on a fleet vehicle’s position, destination arrival and departure coordinates, and more.

Merged Mobile App And Telematics Compliance Tracking

In addition to separate tracking data, you can use merged Mobile App and telematics data. The “Merged” tracking source is designed to provide an accurate and uninterrupted tracking path by utilizing the tracking data from multiple available tracking sources. Therefore, if one of the tracking sources is not available, Route4Me automatically uses the tracking data from another available tracking source, providing a continuous tracking path. When both tracking sources are available simultaneously, your trusted route planner software utilizes the tracking distance from only one source to prevent duplication.

To view merged tracking data from your telematics provider and Mobile App, click the Tracking Icon in the Route Editor map. Then, click “Tracking Source” from the tracking options menu and select “Merged“.

Compliance Analytics – View Compliance And Deviations Data

In addition to viewing route compliance and deviations data on the Route Editor map, you can enable compliance analytics in your Routes List and export compliance and deviation data.

View Compliance And Deviations Data On Routes List

To enable compliance data columns on the Routes List, click the Display Columns button. Then, you can enable the preferred compliance metrics in the “Progress” section.

Export Route Compliance And Deviations Data

Additionally, you can export route data, including compliance and deviations statistics. To export a route’s associated data, go to “Routes” and then “Routes” from the Navigation Menu to open your Routes List. Then, right-click the preferred route or click the Three-dot Icon and hover over “Export Route“. After that, select “Export as CSV” to export the route’s data as a spreadsheet. Additionally, learn more about exporting routes.

Then, on the “Export Route Data” window, select the data items to include in your route export spreadsheet in the left column. After selecting the preferred compliance data items, click export to download your customized CSV route export spreadsheet.

Mandatory Route4Me Navigation With Enforced Route Path Compliance

After you dispatch routes to drivers and they start routes from Route4Me’s mobile app, it’s important to ensure drivers navigate routes as planned to avoid deviations. Route4Me enables drivers to use different navigation methods, but only the in-app navigation provided by Route4Me can ensure your field members follow the route path as planned.

You can 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 and disables the respective advanced configuration.

NOTE: The “DISABLE_NAVIGATION_PATH_COMPLIANCE” advanced configuration disconnects the route path on the mobile app from the path on the Web Platform and must be set to “FALSE” to ensure compliance with the route.