Glossary – Route4Me Last Mile Optimization Software Terminology
Route4Me’s last mile optimization software helps enterprise businesses plan, dispatch, track, and analyze routes across a comprehensive suite of web-based and mobile tools. From core routing concepts to advanced features across Dynamic Routing, Strategic Routing, Business Operations, ERP, and Fleet Management, the platform offers a rich set of capabilities, each with its own precise terminology. This glossary serves as a quick reference for Route Planners, Dispatchers, Drivers, and Administrators, providing clear, accurate definitions for every term you’re likely to encounter across the platform.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Account Settings | A Settings page in Route4Me where individual users update their personal profile details, including profile picture, display name, and contact information. Distinct from Organization Settings, which controls company-wide and account-level configurations. Related Term: Organization Settings |
| Active Route | A route that has been dispatched to a driver and is currently in progress, with drivers navigating and completing stops. Related Terms: In-Progress Route, Live Route |
| Active Vehicle | A fleet vehicle whose ‘Operational‘ status is enabled in its Route4Me profile, making it available for route assignment and planning.Related Terms: Inactive Vehicle, Operational, Vehicle Profile |
| Activity Feed | A centralized log of all account-level activity. Displays a chronological stream of route planning events, modifications, driver arrivals, destination check-ins, note entries, and other team activities. Used by managers and dispatchers to audit team actions and monitor operational activity across the entire account in one place.Related Terms: Destination Activity Feed, GPS Tracking, Operations Matrix |
| Actual Arrival Time | The real-world time a driver arrived at a destination, detected via GPS/geofencing or reported via the mobile app. Related Terms: Detected Arrival, Reported Arrival |
| Actual Distance | The real-world distance traveled by the driver during route execution, as recorded by GPS or telematics. |
| Actual Path Distance | A compliance metric showing the total actual distance traveled as a percentage of the planned route distance. Related Term: Traveled Distance |
| Address | A specific location used for routing, which may be geocoded into latitude and longitude coordinates. Related terms: Location, Destination |
| Address Book | Route4Me’s central database of customer addresses, depots, facilities, and other locations used for route planning. Synchronized across users, accounts, and devices. Related Terms: Address Book Map, Contact Database |
| Address Book Map | An interactive map interface tied to the Address Book that lets users view all stored addresses as map pins, create and manage Territories, plan routes by selecting addresses visually, and perform address management tasks.Related Terms: Address Book, Contact Database |
| Address Pair | A matched set of a pick-up address and a drop-off address, linked by a shared Route Stop ID in the spreadsheet’s Pickup and Dropoff columns. Related Term: Route Stop Pair |
| Address Upload Spreadsheet | A CSV, XLS, or XLSX file used to import route addresses and associated data (time windows, pickup/dropoff columns, etc.) into Route4Me. Related Term: Address Spreadsheet |
| Advanced Configuration Editor | A system settings interface where account administrators can define custom key-value configuration variables to enable, disable, or modify Route4Me platform behavior beyond standard settings. Used to apply account-level customizations such as enforcing in-app navigation, configuring geofence triggers, and activating specialized routing behaviors. Accessible via Organization Settings. Related Terms: Advanced Config Editor, Custom Configuration |
| Alias | An alternate display name assigned to an address, vehicle, or other record, used to identify it more easily than by its formal name or street address alone. Aliases appear on the Routes Page, Route Editor, and Driver Mobile App. |
| Arc Routing | Routing method that plans routes covering all road segments within a user-defined geographic area, calculating the most efficient path to travel every road within that boundary. Related Terms: Road Network Optimization, Arc Route Optimization, Travel Roads |
| Arrived (destination status) | A status set by a driver on the mobile app, or automatically by geofencing, to indicate they have arrived at a destination. Related Terms: Marked as Arrived, Detected as Arrived |
| Assets Page | The Assets management page where enterprise assets such as containers, trailers, forklifts, and other equipment are added and managed. Assets are distinct from Vehicles (which are assigned to routes) and represent trackable non-vehicle resources. Related Term: Equipment Types |
| Assign Route | The action of linking a planned route to a specific team member or vehicle in Route4Me, making the route visible in that driver’s mobile app queue. Assigning a route is an administrative step; it does not send a notification to the driver. To actively alert the driver that the route is ready for execution, use Dispatch. Related Terms: Assign User, Route Dispatch, Share Route, Sharing Vs. Assigning |
| Assigned User | The team member or driver assigned to complete a route or specific destination stop. Related Terms: Route Driver, Assigned Driver, Responsible User |
| Assigned Vehicle | The fleet vehicle designated to execute a route or specific stop, enabling capacity constraints and telematics tracking. Related Terms: Route Vehicle, Fleet Vehicle Assignment |
| Assignment Board | Provides a visual calendar-style interface for assigning scheduled routes to users, vehicles, or facilities using drag-and-drop controls and real-time updates. Related Terms: Assignment Dashboard, Dispatch Board, Assign Route |
| Avoid Highways | Excludes highways from routing. Related Term: Highway Avoidance |
| Avoid Toll Roads | Excludes toll roads from routing. Related Term: Toll Avoidance |
| Avoidance Zones | Restricted areas excluded from routing. Related Term: No-Go Zones |
| Balance Routes | Evenly distributes stops across routes. |
| Barcode Scan (POD) | A proof of delivery method where the driver scans a package barcode using the mobile app to confirm delivery of a specific item. Related Terms: Scan Confirmation, Package Scan |
| Barcode Scanner (In-App) | A built-in camera-based scanner in the Route4Me Mobile Driver App used to scan order labels and barcodes to add orders to a route or update order statuses. Related Term: In-App Barcode Scanner, App Scanner |
| Break Profiles | Reusable break schedule templates that define when and how driver breaks are automatically inserted into routes during optimization. Related Term: Driver Break |
| Bulk Actions | Bulk actions are route management tools that let users perform the same action across multiple routes at once, helping streamline large-scale route planning and updates. Bulk actions can be used to re-optimize routes, assign drivers or vehicles, merge routes, insert stops, and more. |
| Business Insights | An analytics dashboard that displays detailed, real-time intelligence generated by your field team, vehicle fleet, and routing activities. Provides data visualizations and reports on route performance, driver efficiency, delivery trends, and operational KPIs. Related Terms: Dashboard (Classic), Route Performance Metrics |
| Business Rules | Configurable operational constraints applied during route optimization that govern how routes are planned, including limits on route duration, distance, stop count, vehicle capacity, and time windows. Business rules ensure routes comply with operational, contractual, and regulatory requirements. Related Terms: Optimization Constraints, Route Parameters, Capacity Profile |
| Capacity Profile | Vehicle configuration that defines maximum pieces, weight, and cubic volume (cube) allowed per route. Related Terms: Vehicle Profile, Load Profile, Business Rules |
| Closed Date | The date when a driver completed an order by marking the destination as “Done” after completing all mandatory Order Workflow tasks. Related Term: Completion Date |
| Commercial Navigation | A mobile navigation mode in the Route4Me Driver App that applies commercial vehicle constraints, such as height clearances, weight limits, and truck-restricted roads, during turn-by-turn guidance to ensure drivers follow truck-safe routes. Related Terms: Commercial Routing, Truck Navigation Mode, Navigation Profile |
| Commercial Routing | A routing configuration in Route4Me that optimizes routes while enforcing commercial vehicle constraints, including truck height, weight, length, and road access restrictions. Ensures the optimized route uses only roads permissible for the vehicle type. Related Terms: Commercial Navigation, Commercial Vehicle, Vehicle Restrictions |
| Commercial Vehicle | A fleet vehicle configured in Route4Me with commercial-specific attributes, such as height, weight, length, and axle count, enabling commercial routing constraints to be applied during optimization and navigation. Related Terms: Commercial Routing, Vehicle Profile, Vehicle Restrictions |
| Company Snapshot | A centralized analytics dashboard providing a high-level overview of your entire last-mile operation. |
| Completed Destinations | Stops on a route that have been visited and marked as done. Cannot be re-sequenced after completion. |
| Configure Order Groups | A settings interface for defining the grouping logic for Order Groups, including which attribute to group by, allowed values, allowed order statuses, and whether combined route planning is enabled. |
| Confirm Arrival | A driver action in the Route4Me Mobile App that manually records arrival at a destination, creating a Reported Arrival Time timestamp. Used when automatic geofence detection is not active or as a supplement to GPS-based arrival detection. Related Terms: Reported Arrival Time, Arrived (destination status) |
| Contract Snapshot | A centralized view of all data associated with a specific Contract, including its links to customers, routes, and operational performance. |
| Contracts | The Contracts management page in Route4Me’s ERP section, where service contracts linked to customers, routes, and operational performance are created, managed, and reviewed. Related Term: Contract Page |
| Create Vehicle | The process of adding a new vehicle record to the Route4Me fleet by entering its profile details, including name, alias, dimensions, capacity profile, and navigation settings, so it can be assigned to routes and tracked. Related Term: Vehicle Profile |
| Crew Snapshot | A centralized view of all data associated with a specific Crew. |
| Crews | The Crews management page where multi-driver crew assignments are created and managed. Crews group multiple team members together for collaborative route execution. |
| Cross Border Routing | Routing feature that enables Route4Me to optimize routes crossing national borders, allowing deliveries and service calls across multiple countries in a single route. |
| Cube | The total volumetric capacity of a vehicle, typically measured in cubic units, used to optimize load distribution in route planning. |
| Curbside Routing | Geocoding and routing mode that navigates drivers to the nearest accessible street-level point (curb or driveway entrance) rather than the building’s exact GPS location. Related Term: Curbside Delivery |
| Custom Data | User-defined key-value fields that can be added to orders to track information not covered by standard fields. Custom Data values can be used to form Order Groups and filter orders. Related Term: Custom Data Fields, Custom Data Add-On, Custom Order Attributes |
| Custom Fields | User-defined data fields added to routes or destinations for capturing organization-specific information not covered by standard fields. Related Terms: User-Defined Fields, Custom Route Data |
| Customer Invoice Snapshot | A centralized view of all data associated with a specific customer invoice in Route4Me’s ERP system, including line items, amounts, discounts, and taxes. |
| Customer Location | A stored record representing a specific customer site or service address managed in Route4Me’s Locations database. Includes geocoded address data and can be associated with territories, assigned to users, and synced across devices. Related Terms: Location, Address, Destination |
| Customer Notifications | The Notification Settings page where automated SMS and email alert templates are created and configured. Related Term: Customer Notifications (Classic) |
| Customer Snapshot | A centralized view of all data associated with a specific Customer. |
| Customer Surveys | The Ratings screen in Route4Me’s Customer Experience section, where the automated Customer Satisfaction Survey is configured with company branding and notification rules. |
| Customers | The Customers management page in Route4Me’s Database section, where vendor, business, and customer profiles are created and managed. |
| Dashboard (Classic) | A customizable analytics dashboard that displays real-time and historical route data, including planned versus actual performance metrics, driver efficiency figures, and visual graphs for monitoring routing operations over time. Related Terms: Business Insights, Route Performance Metrics, Route Performance Insights |
| Departure Address | The origin location from which a route begins, defined during route planning. Can be set to a depot, facility, driver’s home base, or any specified address. Related Terms: Start Location, Facility |
| Depot Analyzer | Route4Me application that evaluates potential or existing depot locations by simulating routes from each depot to a network of customer addresses, helping businesses choose the optimal depot location. |
| Destination | An individual stop on a planned route, representing a specific address where a driver must perform a service, delivery, pickup, or other task. Related Terms: Stop, Address |
| Destination Snapshot | A centralized analytics dashboard for any individual route destination. |
| Destination Visited Out of Sequence | A specific event type logged in the Activity Feed and Route Snapshot when a stop is completed outside the planned order. |
| Destinations List (Route Editor) | The left-side panel within the Route Editor that displays all stops on the route in their current sequence, used for drag-and-drop reordering and stop management. |
| Destinations Mode | A Routes Page view mode that displays individual destination/stop records rather than aggregated route-level data, enabling stop-level visibility across all routes. |
| Destinations Page | A dedicated view within Route4Me that displays individual stop records across all routes rather than aggregated route-level data. Related Terms: Destinations Mode, View Mode |
| Detected Arrival & Departure | Automatically captured arrival and departure times based on GPS/telematics location data and geofencing triggers. Related Terms: GPS-Detected Times, Geofence Arrival/Departure |
| Detected Time On Site | The duration between the Detected Arrival Time and Detected Departure Time, representing the total time a driver was physically present within the geofenced area as measured by GPS. Related Term: Detected Visit Time, Geofence Time on Site |
| Deviations | Portions of a driver’s actual travel path that differ from the planned route path, displayed as red lines in the Route Editor tracking view.Related Terms: Route Deviations, Detours |
| Disable Optimization | Optimization type that plans a route using the exact address sequence as uploaded, without reordering. |
| Dispatch | A route management action that sends a push notification to the assigned driver’s Route4Me mobile app, alerting them that the route is ready to start. Unlike Assigning, which only links the route to a driver and makes it visible in their app, Dispatching actively notifies the driver and prompts route execution. Related Terms: Assign Route, Assign User, Route Dispatch |
| Dispatch Board | Provides an intuitive order management interface for inserting orders into planned routes and dispatching them to drivers using a drag-and-drop timeline view. See also: Dispatch Dashboard. Related Term: Dispatch Dashboard |
| Display Columns | User-selectable data fields that control which columns appear in Route4Me data tables such as the Routes Page, Assignment Dashboard, and Dispatch Dashboard. Each user can configure which columns are visible and their display order. Related Terms: Column Configuration, Data Columns |
| Download Territory | A territory management action that exports all addresses within the territory and their associated data as a CSV file. Related Term: Export Territory Addresses |
| Drive Time | The portion of route duration spent actively traveling between stops, excluding service, wait, and break time. Related Term: Travel Time |
| Driver Assignment | The process of associating a specific team member or driver with a route so that the route is visible in their Route4Me mobile app. Driver Assignment is an administrative step; it makes the route available to the driver but does not send a notification. Use Dispatch to actively alert the driver that the route is ready for execution. Related Terms: Assign User, Assign Route, Route Dispatch |
| Driver Mobile App | Route4Me’s iOS and Android mobile application used by drivers to access dispatched routes, navigate destinations, mark arrivals and completions, and sync location data. Related Terms: Route4Me Mobile App, Android Route Planning App, iPhone Route Planning App |
| Driver Navigation Settings | Settings within the Route4Me Mobile Driver App that control navigation behavior, including preferred navigation app, map display preferences, and route adherence requirements such as mandatory in-app navigation. |
| Driver Skills | Attributes assigned to drivers that can be used to match them to routes or destinations requiring specific competencies, used in route optimization matching. |
| Dynamic Routing | One of Route4Me’s primary routing modes, alongside Strategic Routing and Recurring Routing). Used for day-to-day operational route management. Related Term: Dynamic Route Optimization |
| Dynamic Start Time | Adjusts route start time based on conditions. Related Term: Flexible Start Time |
| Equipment Types | Equipment Type Profiles where equipment and asset categories are defined for use in vehicle and asset management. Equipment Types allow organizations to classify resources such as containers, trailers, and forklifts, supporting more precise routing and asset tracking. |
| ERP Order Management System | Route4Me’s enterprise-grade system for importing orders from CRMs and other external systems, then managing, planning, and optimizing routes with large volumes of customer orders. Related Term: Order Management System |
| Export History | A Security section page in Route4Me that displays a complete record of all files exported from the account by the main user and sub-users, including filenames, export timestamps, status, and options to download or delete each file. |
| Export Route | A feature that downloads route data in a structured file format (CSV, Excel, PDF) for use in external systems or reporting. Related Terms: Route Export, Download Route Data |
| Facilities | The Facilities management page where warehouses, distribution centers, depots, and other physical operational locations are added, configured, and managed. Related Terms: Depot, Fulfillment Center, Warehouse |
| Facility Snapshot | A centralized analytics dashboard for a specific Facility, consolidating all facility-related data in one place. |
| Fleet | The complete collection of vehicles registered in a Route4Me account. Fleet vehicles can be assigned to routes, configured with capacity profiles, and tracked via GPS or telematics. |
| Fuel Delivery Optimization | Route4Me’s specialized algorithm for optimizing multi-compartment fuel tanker routes, accounting for fuel capacity, compatibility, delivery sequencing, gravity-fed vs. pump-off constraints, terminal availability, and mid-route refill decisions. |
| Geocoding | The process of converting a street address into geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) so it can be placed on a map and included in route optimization calculations. |
| Geofence | A virtual geographic boundary drawn around a destination address in Route4Me. When a driver’s GPS enters or exits the boundary, the system automatically generates immutable Detected Arrival and Detected Departure timestamps, providing objective visit confirmation independent of driver manual input. Related Terms: Geofencing, Custom Location Geofences, Detected Arrival Time, Detected Departure Time |
| GPS Distance | The actual distance traveled as recorded by GPS, used as part of compliance tracking metrics. |
| GPS Tracking | Route4Me’s real-time location tracking system that records and monitors the exact position of drivers, vehicles, and assets during route execution. Related Term: Telematics |
| Grab & Go | A mobile driver feature that enables drivers to use the in-app barcode scanner to scan order labels, add each order’s address as a stop, and build a route without dispatcher pre-planning. |
| High-Density Routing | Routing mode that uses smart clustering algorithms to plan large sets of routes with optimal destination density, preventing route paths from overlapping while minimizing travel time and distance. |
| Hybrid Route Editor | A route planning interface that combines scheduled orders, recurring addresses, an interactive map, and a timeline view to help users plan, optimize, and manage routes for a specific date |
| Inactive Vehicle | A fleet vehicle whose “Operational” status is disabled in its Route4Me profile, making it unavailable for route assignment and planning. |
| Insert Destination | The action of adding a new stop to an already-planned or in-progress route, either at a specific position or via optimal insertion. Related Terms: Add Stop, Insert Stop, Add Destination to Route |
| Interactive Map Editor | A route address input method allowing users to pick exact locations or coordinates directly on a map. |
| Invoices | Route4Me’s ERP Invoices management page where customer invoices can be reviewed and managed. |
| iOS App | Apple version of the Route4Me mobile app. Related Term: Driver Mobile App |
| Item & Services Master | A centralized ERP page where organizations maintain their master list of items and services, ensuring consistent use across invoicing, pricing rules, and order management processes. |
| Label Code | A custom order label code used when importing orders. Readable by Route4Me’s Mobile App Barcode Scanner to verify, sort, and schedule orders. Related Terms: Barcode, Order Label |
| Last Mile | The final segment of a delivery or service journey from a distribution point to the end customer. Route4Me is a last-mile optimization platform. Related Terms: Last Mile Delivery, Last Mile Routing, Final Mile |
| Left Side Routing | Same Side Routing configured so all destinations are to the left of the route path as drivers navigate. Related Terms: Same Side Routing |
| Less Than Truckload (LTL) | Route optimization approach in which a vehicle carries less than its full capacity. Related Term: LTL Routing |
| Location | A physical address record stored in Route4Me’s Locations database, representing a specific customer site or service address. Related Terms: Customer Location, Locations Page |
| Location Territory | A custom-shaped geographic area that groups Customer Locations falling within its boundaries. Used for territory-based routing of locations. |
| Locations Snapshot | A centralized view of all data associated with a saved Customer Location. |
| Mandatory Compliant Navigation | An advanced configuration that forces drivers to follow the optimized route exactly as planned. Related Terms: Enforced Navigation, Forced Route Navigation, Mandatory Navigation |
| Manual Clustering | SmartZone configuration mode where the user specifies the desired number of SmartZones and Route4Me distributes addresses accordingly. |
| Map Layers | Configurable visual overlays in the Route4Me map interface that add additional data on top of the base map, such as geofence boundaries, driver tracking paths, live traffic, breadcrumb indicators, and weather conditions. |
| Minimize Routes | A route optimization option that prioritizes completing all stops using the fewest possible routes by consolidating stops and reducing the total number of required vehicles or drivers. Related Term: Balance Routes |
| Mixed Vehicles Fleet | Optimization setting that accounts for vehicles with varying capacities to determine the ideal number of routes. Related Term: Mixed Fleet |
| Modify Destination | The action of updating the details of an existing destination on a planned or in-progress route, such as its address, time window, service time, notes, or custom data, from within the Route Editor. |
| Move Destinations | The action of transferring a stop from one route to another using drag-and-drop on the Routes Timeline or Route Editor, without recreating either route. |
| Multi-Depot Routing | Setting allowing routes to start from multiple departure locations. |
| Multiple Drivers Route Optimization | Optimization type that plans the most optimal number of routes across multiple drivers based on specified constraints and business rules. |
| Notifications History | The Notifications History page where a complete log of all customer notifications sent from the account can be reviewed. Related Term: Customer Notifications |
| Offline Navigation Mode | A Route4Me Mobile App mode that allows drivers to continue navigating an assigned route without an active internet connection, using pre-downloaded map data and cached route information. |
| On-Time Performance | A metric measuring the percentage of stops completed within their planned time windows. Related Term: Time Window Compliance |
| Operations Matrix | A real-time visual dashboard showing destination-level visitation progress for multiple routes simultaneously Related Term: Routes Matrix |
| Optimization Engine | System component that processes constraints and generates optimized routes. |
| Optimization Profile | Saved configuration defining routing rules and constraints. |
| Optimization Snapshot | A centralized analytics dashboard for any route Optimization. |
| Optimizations | The Optimizations list page displaying all saved route optimizations with their associated planning parameters, linked routes, and status. Related Term: Route Optimization |
| Optimize Route(s) | Action that applies optimization rules to generate routes. |
| Order | A record in Route4Me representing a specific service task, delivery, or pickup to be completed at a customer location. |
| Order Group | Named collections of orders grouped by a shared attribute such as ZIP Code, Custom Data value, or Group ID. |
| Order Snapshot | A centralized view of all data associated with a specific Order. |
| Order Status | A system-assigned label indicating the current lifecycle state of an order. |
| Order Territories | Geographical zones used to plan and optimize customer order routes. Related Term: Location Territory |
| Orders List | A filterable, sortable database list of all customer orders in a Route4Me account. Related Terms: Orders Page, Order Management System |
| Orders Map | An interactive map integrated into the Orders Page that displays all orders as map pins according to active filters. |
| Organization Settings | A Settings page where administrators configure company-wide account preferences, including the company profile, geofence settings, avoidance zones, timezone, units of measurement, and advanced platform behaviors. |
| Out-of-Sequence Visit | Any destination visited by a driver in a different order than the planned route sequence; Related Term: Out-of-Sequence Destination, Sequence Deviation, Route Adherence |
| Pick Up and Drop Off Route Optimization | Routing mode that automatically plans the optimal sequence of address pairs where a pickup address is always visited before its corresponding drop-off address. |
| Pieces | The number of individual items or packages assigned to a destination or route, used for capacity planning. |
| Planned Distance | The total distance calculated for a route, based on the planned sequence of stops and optimized for efficiency before the route is executed. |
| Plan New Route | Entry point for route creation in the platform. Related Term: Create Route |
| Possession Scan Date | An automatically generated timestamp recording when an order was scanned and assigned the Inbound Scan status. |
| Predicted Arrival & Departure | System-estimated arrival and departure times calculated in real time during route execution based on current driver progress. Related Terms: Live ETA, Real-Time ETA |
| Price List | An ERP page where pricing records are managed, including unit prices, sale quantities, discounts, and effective date ranges. |
| Proof of Delivery | Evidence collected at a stop confirming that a delivery, pickup, or service was completed, such as a customer signature, photo, barcode scan, or timestamp. Related Terms: POD, Proof of Service, Proof of Visit, POV |
| Proof of Visit Workflows | Customizable task sequences assigned to destinations that drivers must complete to confirm a visit; e.g., capturing signatures, verifying IDs, attaching photos. Related Terms: Proof of Visit, Proof of Delivery (POD), Proof of Service, Workflows, Driver Task Workflows |
| Re-Optimize | The action of running the optimization engine on an existing route to recalculate the most efficient stop sequence and travel directions. |
| Re-Sequence Destinations | The action of changing the order of stops within a route by dragging them to a new position on the Routes Timeline or Destinations List. |
| Real-Time Data Sync | The live synchronization of telematics data (vehicle positions, speed, status) from a connected telematics provider into Route4Me, enabling current-state fleet visibility. |
| Recurring Routing | One of Route4Me’s primary routing modes, used to schedule and manage routes that repeat on a defined cycle such as daily, weekly, or monthly. |
| Recurring Schedules | Recurring Schedules are automated routing setups that generate routes on a repeating basis using a master route template. Related Term: Strategic Route Recurring Schedules |
| Reschedule | A route management action that changes a route’s scheduled start date and time, with changes instantly synced across the platform. |
| Revenue | The financial value associated with a route, stop, or delivery, often used for performance tracking and optimization. |
| Right Side Routing | Same Side Routing configured so all destinations are to the right of the route path as drivers navigate. Related Term: Same Side Routing |
| Rooftop Routing | Default routing mode that uses the precise GPS coordinates of an address, placing address pins directly on the building structure. Related Term: Curbside Routing |
| Route | An ordered sequence of destination stops planned and optimized by Route4Me for a driver or vehicle to execute on a given date. |
| Route Dispatch | The process of sending a planned and optimized route to a driver’s mobile app with a push notification, prompting them to begin field execution. Related Terms: Assign Route, Assign User, Share Route, Sharing vs. Assigning |
| Route Editor | The primary web platform tool for opening, viewing, managing, editing, and tracking individual planned routes. |
| Route ID | A unique identifier assigned to each route in Route4Me for tracking and management. |
| Route Manifest | A printable or shareable summary document for a route that includes stop addresses, planned sequence, arrival times, driver instructions, and key route metrics. Related Term: Dynamic Route Manifest |
| Route Name | A user-assigned or system-generated identifier for a route, displayed across all management views. Related Term: Route Alias |
| Route Optimization | Process of generating an efficient stop sequence based on constraints such as time, distance, and capacity. Related Term: Optimization |
| Route Path Compliance | Monitoring whether drivers follow the planned driving route between destinations, tracked via GPS and shown as a polyline with deviation indicators in the Route Editor. Related Terms: Route Adherence, Path Compliance |
| Route Planner Page | The web interface where route optimization settings are configured before a route is finalized and dispatched. Users select Optimization Profiles or manually set constraints here. |
| Route Snapshot | A centralized, real-time analytics dashboard for any last-mile optimized route. |
| Route Status | The current state of a route in its lifecycle: Planned, Dispatched, In Progress, Completed, or Cancelled. |
| Route4Me Mobile App | Mobile application used by drivers to execute routes. Related Term: Driver App |
| Routes List | A list within the Routes Page that displays all planned and active routes as rows in a customizable table, with columns showing route metrics, status, assignments, and performance data. Related Terms: Routes Page, Routes Database |
| Routes Map | The interactive map interface within the Routes Page that displays all planned and active routes as color-coded paths on a map, enabling visual route monitoring, stop management, and real-time driver tracking. Related Term: Routes Map (Classic), Route Map (Original) |
| Routes Map (Classic) | The legacy version of the interactive routes map, available for users who prefer the older interface. Related Term: Route Map (Original) |
| Routes Page | The central hub of the Route4Me web platform where route planners and managers view, search, filter, and manage all planned and active routes. Related Terms: Routes List, Routes Database |
| Routing Calendar | A calendar view that displays all scheduled routes, recurring addresses, and orders by date, enabling users to navigate, plan, and manage upcoming routing events. |
| Same Side Road Routing | Routing mode that optimizes routes so all destinations are on the same side of the road as the driver travels, reducing risky street crossings and lowering service time. Related Terms: Left Side Routing, Right Side Routing |
| Scenarios | The Scenarios list page which displays all route scenarios planned with Strategic Optimizations. |
| Service Time | The estimated duration required to complete a task at each destination. Related term: Wait Time |
| Share Route | An action that provides a public, view-only link to a route allowing others (customers, partners, non-account users) to view route details without being able to edit or manage it. Related Terms: Sharing Vs Assigning |
| Sharing vs. Assigning | A key conceptual distinction in Route4Me involving three related but different actions: (1) Assigning links a route to a Route4Me team member, making it visible in their mobile app without sending a notification; (2) Dispatching sends a push notification to an assigned driver, actively prompting them to begin; (3) Sharing generates a public, view-only link that anyone can open, including customers or partners without a Route4Me account, to track route progress without editing access. Related Terms: Assign User, Dispatch Routes, Share Route |
| Sign In History | A Security page in Route4Me that displays a complete record of all account sign-in events, including timestamps, devices used, and the email address and IP address of the main account holder and all sub-users. |
| Single Driver Route Optimization | Optimization type that plans one route with all addresses for a single driver or vehicle. |
| Skill Snapshot | A centralized view of all data associated with a specific Skill, showing which users, vehicles, locations, and orders are linked to that skill. |
| Skills | The Skills management page where custom skill attributes are created and assigned to drivers, vehicles, locations, and orders. Related Term: Driver Skills |
| SmartZone Routing | Proprietary Route4Me algorithm that automatically splits a set of addresses into optimal geographic clusters (SmartZones), each of which becomes the basis for a planned route. Related Term: Smart Zone Route Optimization |
| Snapshot | A detailed overview of activities associated with a route, user, vehicle, telematics integration or other feature which helps you track route activity more easily. |
| SPORH | Stops Per On-Road Hour, an efficiency metric measuring the number of stops a driver completes per hour of active driving. |
| Stop Types | Predefined categories that can be assigned to destination stops. Options include Pickup, Delivery, Break, Meetup, Service, Visit, and Drive By. Related Terms: Destination Types, Visit Types |
| Strategic Location Snapshot | A centralized view of all data associated with a specific location within a Strategic Optimization Scenario. |
| Strategic Route Snapshot | A centralized view of all data associated with a specific route within a Strategic Optimization Scenario, including a route summary, map, performance metrics, and a destinations data table. |
| Strategic Routing | One of Route4Me’s primary routing modes, focused on long-term planning scenarios such as territory design, capacity planning, and scenario modeling. Related Term: Strategic Route Optimization |
| Subscription | The Subscription management page where administrators view and manage the account’s current subscription plan, payment method, and billing details. |
| Telematics | Technology that monitors and tracks vehicles and assets in real-time, often using GPS and other sensors. |
| Telematics Connection | A configured integration between Route4Me and a third-party GPS telematics vendor that imports vehicle GPS data, enabling vehicle tracking and performance monitoring. Related Term: Telematics Integration |
| Telematics Integration | The connection between Route4Me and external GPS/fleet tracking systems that provides real-time vehicle location data, enabling automated mileage tracking, arrival detection, and performance analysis. Related Terms: Telematics Connection, GPS Integration, Telematics Provider |
| Telematics Provider | A third-party GPS fleet tracking system integrated with Route4Me through the Telematics Gateway, providing vehicle location data as a tracking source. Related Terms: Telematics Vendor, Telematics Connection, Telematics Integration |
| Telematics Route Snapshot | A Telematics Route Snapshot is a centralized analytics view that combines route performance metrics, tracking data, telematics insights, and operational details for a specific route in one place. |
| Telematics Snapshot | A centralized analytics dashboard for a specific Telematics Vendor Integration. |
| Telematics Trip Snapshot | A Telematics Trip Snapshot is a centralized view of trip activity, driving behavior, GPS tracking, and vehicle performance data for a specific telematics trip. |
| Telematics Vehicle | A vehicle equipped with telematics technology that tracks and transmits real-time data, such as location, speed, and fuel consumption, to optimize fleet management and route planning. |
| Telematics Vendor | A third-party provider that supplies GPS tracking and vehicle telematics data for integration with Route4Me. |
| Territory | A defined geographic area used for organizing and optimizing routes within a specific region. |
| Time Windows | Customer-specified or operationally-defined time ranges during which a driver must arrive at and service a destination. Route4Me’s optimization engine accounts for time windows when calculating the stop sequence and planned arrival times to maximize on-time performance. |
| Total Route Duration | The total elapsed time from a route’s start to its finish, including all driving time, service time, wait time, and break time. |
| Total Stops Completed | The number of stops actually visited and marked as done during route execution. Related Terms: Completed Stops, Visited Stops |
| Total Stops Planned | The number of stops included in the route as originally optimized. Related Terms: Planned Stops, Scheduled Stops |
| TPORH | Transactions Per On-Road Hour. An efficiency metric measuring the number of transaction events (deliveries, pickups, scans) completed per hour of driving. |
| Tracking History | The recorded GPS data of a driver’s or vehicle’s movement along a route, viewable in the Route Editor via the Tracking Path and Breadcrumbs options. |
| Tracking Source | The data provider used for GPS tracking of a driver or vehicle, either the Route4Me Mobile App or a connected third-party telematics provider. |
| Travel Mode | A route parameter specifying the type of transportation used: Driving, Walking, Bicycling, or Public Transit. Related Term: Transportation Mode |
| Travel Time Slowdown | A route optimization setting that applies a percentage increase to all calculated travel time estimates, allowing planners to account for real-world conditions, such as traffic, driver behavior, or road complexity, that may slow progress beyond standard routing model assumptions. Related Terms: Service Time Slowdown, Traffic Slowdowns |
| Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) | A route optimization problem focused on finding the most efficient sequence of stops in a single route, used as a core model in Route4Me’s single-route optimization algorithms. |
| Truck Navigation Mode | Mobile navigation mode optimized for commercial trucks. Related Term: Commercial Navigation |
| Truck Profile | Vehicle profile optimized for commercial truck constraints. Related Term: Commercial Vehicle Profile |
| Truck Restrictions | Road-level restrictions applied in Route4Me’s commercial routing mode that prevent routes from using roads unsuitable for commercial vehicles, including weight-restricted bridges, height-limited underpasses, and truck-prohibited roads or zones. Related Terms: Commercial Routing, Vehicle Restrictions, Road Restrictions |
| Turn-by-Turn Directions | Step-by-step navigation instructions provided to drivers via the mobile app for traveling between stops. Related Term: Navigation Directions |
| Unassign Vehicle | The action of removing a fleet vehicle from its current route assignment in Route4Me, making the vehicle available for reassignment to another route. |
| Unlink Routes from Optimization | A Bulk Action that removes the optimization constraints binding routes to a specific optimization profile or linked batch, allowing destinations to be freely moved between routes. |
| Unrouted Destinations | System-generated route holding addresses excluded from optimization due to constraint violations or cluster limits; available for future re-optimization. Related Term: Unrouted Addresses |
| Upload Addresses | Import address data via spreadsheet. |
| User Hierarchy | A structured system of reporting relationships that controls user visibility based on position within the organization.. Related Term: Team Hierarchy |
| User Snapshot | A centralized analytics dashboard for an individual last-mile team member, providing real-time data and key performance indicators (KPIs) for that user. |
| User Types | The role hierarchy within Route4Me that determines account-level permissions: Administrator, Regional Manager, Route Planner, Dispatcher, Driver, Analyst, Sorter, Customer Support. Related Terms: User Role, Account Level Permissions, Team Hierarchy |
| Users | The team members registered in a Route4Me account, each assigned a specific role: – Administrator, Regional Manager, Route Planner, Dispatcher, Driver, or Sub-User – that determines their permissions and visibility within the platform. |
| Vehicle | A fleet vehicle registered in Route4Me and configured with a profile defining its dimensions, capacity, and navigation settings. Related Terms: Fleet, Commercial Vehicle |
| Vehicle Assignment | The process of associating a specific fleet vehicle with a route, enabling capacity constraints and telematics tracking for that vehicle. |
| Vehicle Attributes | Custom vehicle characteristics used for matching vehicles to destinations or routes based on specific requirements. Related Terms: Driver Skills |
| Vehicle Availability Status | A vehicle profile setting that indicates whether a vehicle is currently operational and available for route assignment (Active) or temporarily unavailable (Inactive). |
| Vehicle Capacity | The maximum load a vehicle can carry, defined in terms of weight, cube (volume), and/or units. Used as a constraint during route optimization. Related Terms: Payload Capacity, Load Capacity, Vehicle Load |
| Vehicle Capacity Profile | A setting within a vehicle’s profile that defines the maximum load capacity in weight, volume, and number of pieces, used as an optimization constraint. Related Terms: Capacity Profile, Vehicle Capacity |
| Vehicle ID | A system-assigned unique identifier for each vehicle record in Route4Me, used to reference vehicles in the platform, API, and telematics integrations. |
| Vehicle Name | The primary display name assigned to a vehicle in its Route4Me profile, used to identify it across the platform in route assignments, dispatch views, and telematics tracking. Related Term: Vehicle Alias |
| Vehicle Position Refresh Rate | The frequency at which a vehicle’s GPS position is updated and synced in the system, configurable via telematics connections. |
| Vehicle Profile | A vehicle record in Route4Me containing all configuration details for a fleet vehicle, including its name, alias, physical dimensions (height, weight, length, width), capacity settings, navigation preferences, and operational status. Used during route optimization to apply vehicle-specific constraints and during mobile navigation to enforce road restrictions. Related Terms: Fleet Vehicle Profile, Capacity Profile |
| Vehicle Restrictions | Dimension and road-access constraints configured in a vehicle’s profile that restrict which roads the vehicle can use during routing and navigation, based on height, weight, length, width, and axle count settings. Related Terms: Commercial Routing, Truck Restrictions |
| Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) | A complex optimization problem involving multiple vehicles and routes, extended by constraints such as capacity, time windows, and pickup/delivery requirements. |
| Vehicle Snapshot | A centralized view of a fleet vehicle showing its location, route assignments, and related vehicle and capacity details. |
| View-Only Access | A permission level granted to route viewers via shared links that allows them to see route details but not edit, assign, or manage the route. |
| VIN (Vehicle Identification Number) | Manufacturer-issued unique identifier. Related Term: Vehicle Serial Number |
| Visit Status | The current completion state of an individual destination stop: Pending, Completed, Failed, or Skipped. Related Terms: Destination Status, Stop Status |
| Visited and Not Planned | A compliance metric showing the distance traveled that was not on the planned route (skipped or unplanned portions). Related Term: Unplanned Travel Distance |
| Wait Time | The time a driver spends idle at a destination before service can begin; for example, waiting for a customer to become available or for a time window to open. |
| Weather Map Layers | An optional map overlay that displays real-time or forecasted weather conditions on the Routes Map to help planners anticipate weather-related route impacts. Related Term: Weather Overlay |
| Weight | The total load capacity of a vehicle, used to optimize routes based on weight restrictions and cargo limits. |
| Workflows | The Workflow Settings page where mandatory task templates are created and assigned to destinations. Drivers and field team members must complete all workflow tasks, such as capturing a photo, collecting a signature, or entering a note, before they can mark a destination as Done. Related Terms: Proof of Visit Workflows, Proof of Visit, Proof of Delivery |
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