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Technical characteristics

Type of routes, staff and equipment constraints, customer particularities... Each of our clients has their own specific optimization needs.
To generate optimized routes, precisely tailored to your business and your requirements, the TourSolver round optimization solution has numerous configuration functionalities.

Constraint management...

TourSolver generates the most profitable sequence and routing, while taking account of customer constraints, human resources constraints and the specific nature of each of your vehicles.

Constraints associated with your customers:

  • Days, time windows, visit
  • Fixed visit time and variable unloading time
  • Required characteristics (skills, vehicle, etc.)
  • Quantities to deliver (up to 8 different produtcs or dimensions)
  • Assign customers to a route
  • Delays penalty and punctuality

Cost configuration:

  • Hourly cost and Overtime working hours
  • Vehicles fixed usage and non-usage cost
  • Global mileage cost
  • Fixed cost per visit


Constraints related to your mobile crews:

  • Working days and hours, lunch break (plus overtime working hours)
  • Overnights routes (overnights cost, maximum overnights per journey)
  • Driving time laws
  • briefing / debriefing duration

Constraints due to your vehicles:

  • Vehicles capacities  (up to 8 different products or dimensions)
  • Loading time per quantity units
  • Multi-depot management (for different depots or agencies locations)
  • Movement of heavy goods vehicles constraints:
    Weight and height, wide or long vehicle, vehicle with trailer, hazardous material, inflammable material, water polluting material, etc.
  • Special speed limits

Handling of the road network

  • Street side management
  • Zones where traffic is prohibited
  • Specific nature of traffic according to the type of vehicle: car, taxi, emergency vehicle, heavy goods vehicle
  • Limited access (heavy goods vehicles, transport of hazardous substances, etc.)
  • Optimization based on Navteq or Tele Atlas map data.

  • Geographic coverage:
    Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, etc.
    (OPTI-TIME SA has tools that enable its products to be used using other map databases. Contact us to check availability of other countries.)

Exporting results:

  • A detailed list of routes with times and customers’ addresses, for each resource.
  • Route sheets with the order of calling on each customer and the directions to follow, for each vehicle.
  • Files in Excel, Word or text format.

Mobility / Interfacing with other systems:

Optionally send results to vehicle tracking services, navigation systems or personal organizers:

  • Vehicle tracking services: Masternaut France, Punch Telematix
  • Business applications (activity monitoring): Mov’age
  • Navigation : Tomtom, Bayo AvMap, Bayo NavMan
  • iCalendar format (Outlook, Google Agenda, ...)

Interface available in:

English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.

System requirements:

TourSolver pour Microsoft MapPoint and TourSolver pour MapInfo Profesional runs on Microsoft Windows 98, NT4 sp6, 2000, Millennium, XP and requires Microsoft MapPoint 2002 or 2004.  
Minimum RAM requirements : 512 Mb


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