Route Path Compliance – GPS Tracking Polyline With Route Adherence, Planned And Not Visited, Deviation And Detour Detection
Driver route compliance maximizes efficiency and reduces operational risks. With Route4Me’s compliance tracking, you can monitor if drivers follow planned routes and identify where deviations occur. Real-time tracking through Route4Me’s Mobile Apps or GPS telematics gives you accurate data on route adherence, including percentage and distance of route completed, which helps support auditing, performance evaluations, and operational improvements. By detecting noncompliance, you can ensure drivers avoid restricted areas, reduce fuel usage, and respect route planning constraints like avoiding left turns.
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Enable Route Compliance – View Route Travel Data And Deviations
Route4Me’s Business Route Software visually highlights route compliance by marking traveled segments in blue and deviations in red. This makes it easy to see which parts of a route were followed as planned and where detours occurred.
Later in this guide, you’ll learn how to enable, view, and export detailed compliance data and analytics.
To view a field employee’s driving, walking, or cycling path, you’ll need to open the route in the Route Editor.
Click “Dynamic Routing” > “Routes” in the Navigation Menu. Click the Down Arrow button next to the route followed by “Edit“. The route will open in the Route Editor.
After opening a route in the Route Editor, click the Tracking icon to access the tracking options menu. Enable the “Tracking Path” option and its “Deviations” sub-option to view the route traveled by the field employee.
Traveled paths appear in blue, while deviations from the planned route are marked in red. You can explore additional tracking features in the table below.
Route Path Compliance Settings
To display the planned travel path and direction arrows, click the Map Layers icon and check the “Driving Lines” box.
Compliance Tracking Metrics – Track Deviation Distance And Percentage
To track compliance with maximum efficiency and precision, Route4Me provides detailed route compliance metrics. These are shown in the tracking panel at the lower left of the Route Editor map.
Route Path Compliance Tracking Metrics
Compliance Tracking With Mobile App Tracking Data
Route4Me’s Mobile Route Planner for iOS and Android uses location services to update vehicle positions in real time, enabling you to track route compliance and field activity. To view this data, open a route in the Route Editor, click the Tracking Icon, then select “Route4Me” under “Tracking Source”
Combined with Route4Me’s Geofencing, the mobile app provides up-to-the-minute details on vehicle location, arrivals, departures, and more. You can further customize compliance and navigation settings through the Advanced Configuration Editor.
Compliance Tracking With Telematics GPS Data
Alternatively, you can connect your Route4Me account to a telematics vendor to track vehicles in real time and view route history.
Route4Me automatically pulls GPS data from your fleet’s telematics devices and displays it on the map. To view this data, open a route in the Route Editor, click the Tracking Icon, then select your telematics provider under “Tracking Source”.
Merged Mobile App And Telematics Compliance Tracking
In addition to individual tracking sources, you can view merged tracking data from both the Route4Me Mobile App and your telematics provider. The “Merged” option ensures an accurate, uninterrupted tracking path by automatically switching between sources if one becomes unavailable.
When both sources are active, Route4Me uses data from only one to avoid duplication. To enable merged tracking, open a route in the Route Editor, click the Tracking Icon, then select “Merged” under “Tracking Source”.
Compliance Analytics – View Compliance And Deviations Data
You can not only view route compliance and deviation data on the Route Editor map but also enable compliance analytics in your Routes List and export this data for further analysis.
View Compliance And Deviations Data On Routes List
To enable compliance data columns on the Routes List, click the Display Columns Icon. Check the boxes next to the metrics you would like to see, then click “Apply” to finalize. Data columns details appear below.
Compliance Data Columns
Export Route Compliance And Deviations Data
Additionally, from the Routes List, you can export route data, including compliance and deviations statistics. Click the Down Arrow button next to the route, choose “Export Routes“, then select your preferred route data export format.
Mandatory Route4Me Navigation With Enforced Route Path Compliance
Once drivers start to navigate dispatched routes via Route4Me’s mobile app, it’s crucial to ensure they follow planned routes without deviation. While drivers can use various navigation apps, only Route4Me’s in-app navigation guarantees that they stay on the optimized route path as intended.
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
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