Mandatory Navigation Compliance – Enforced Mobile App Planned Route Navigation

Route4Me’s final mile optimization software helps you plan efficient routes in seconds. To ensure those routes are followed as intended, our Mandatory Compliant Navigation enforces strict route adherence. This reduces detours, keeps drivers out of avoidance zones, respects optimization rules like avoiding left turns, and maximizes fuel efficiency. Real-time tracking via Route4Me mobile apps or integrated GPS telematics lets you monitor compliance as it happens on the Route4Me web platform. In the guide, you’ll learn how to enable Mandatory Navigation and track route compliance for your field team.

Enable Mandatory Navigation – Route Path Compliance Advanced Configuration

To make compliant navigation mandatory, use the Advanced Configuration Editor to add a new variable. Click “Add Variable“, set the Key to “DISABLE_EXTERNAL_NAVIGATION” and the Value to “TRUE“, then click “Create Variable“.

If the “Value” is left empty, it defaults to “FALSE“, which disables this setting and maintains standard navigation behavior.

NOTE: To ensure full compliance, the “DISABLE_NAVIGATION_PATH_COMPLIANCE” variable must be set to “FALSE“, as setting it to “TRUE” will disconnect the mobile app’s route path from the Web Platform.

Open Advanced Configuration Editor

Mandatory Navigation – Mobile App Enforced Compliant Navigation With Planned Routes

With the “DISABLE_EXTERNAL_NAVIGATION” set to “TRUE” and “DISABLE_NAVIGATION_PATH_COMPLIANCE” set to “FALSE“, mobile driver navigation on the Route4Me Route App works as follows:

• Drivers must use Route4Me’s in-app GPS navigation. Third-party apps like Waze, Apple Maps, or Goolge Maps cannot be selected.
• The mobile app route path matches the optimized path from the Web Platform, ensuring full compliance with your routing rules and constraints.

These settings guarantee that field team members follow the exact planned routes. Later in this guide, you’ll explore how compliant navigation supports advanced planning constraints and gives you greater control over last-mile optimization.

Required Compliance Routing – Commercial Routes, Same Side Routing And More

In 2025, compliant navigation is critical for many enterprise businesses, helping ensure drivers and field teams follow routes exactly as planned. Depending on your specific needs, you may apply route constraints, business rules, or other settings that depend on strict navigation adherence.

Below are a few examples where mandatory navigation can help your business achieve greater efficiency and routing accuracy.

Commercial Routing – Plan Compliant Truck Routes For Commercial Fleet Vehicles

For example, you can plan commercial routes that consider vehicle parameters such as weight, height, width, and hazardous material restrictions to avoid unsuitable or restricted areas. As a result, the directions for commercial truck routes may differ significantly from those of standard routes using the same destination addresses.

To ensure these routes are followed accurately, you can enable mandatory compliant navigation as outlined in this guide.

Same Side Routing – Plan Routes With Destinations On The Left Or Right

You can also optimize routes so that all destinations are located on the same side of the road, allowing field workers to avoid parking across the street and crossing on foot. This improve driver safety, reduces service time, and helps prevent unsuccessful deliveries due to potential damage or delays.

To ensure these optimizations are followed as planned, it’s essential to enable mandatory compliant navigation, especially when using features like Same Side Routing or avoiding left turns.

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

Additionally, Route4Me’s dispatch tracking software enables you to monitor driver compliance by detecting route deviations and detours in real time. This ensures that field team members stay out of avoidance zones, follow settings like avoiding left turns, conserve fuel, and complete routes efficiently.

For deeper insights, such as the percentage and distance of the route that was followed versus missed, explore our Route Compliance Tracking Polyline feature.

Last Updated: January 1, 2024June 23, 2025