PTV Logistics, a global leader in logistics and trans-portation technology solutions, has just launched the next generation of one of their flagship logistics planning software, PTV Map&Guide. This cutting-edge product not only sets a new standard for accurate toll cost calculation, truck route planning and user experience, but also factors in environmental, social and governance (ESG) require-ments.
More than 30 years since PTV Logistics first created the standard in transport cost calcu-lation with PTV Map&Guide for businesses, the next generation of this software has been released. This version of PTV Map&Guide comes with a completely new and streamlined user interface making it easier to use. In addition, a whole range of updates, use cases and new features have been included to help users improve route planning, increase effi-ciency and provide insights on calculations such as: transport costs, emissions, toll and time & distances without compromising on the quality of their service.
Customers will benefit from:
• New UX & UI, great user experience through brand new UI and seamless myPTV platform integration.
• Electric vehicle (EV) route simulation that enables benchmarking against other vehicle types.
• Improved toll cost prediction based on up-to-date information that factors in all emission classes, including EV, LNG, CNG, and hybrid vehicles.
• Better planning for environmental regulations with electronic toll collection (ETC) systems and European emissions stickers that can be assigned per vehicle to comply with regional low emission zone (LEZ) regulations. This helps design more cost-effective routes and flexible routes.
• High-performance routing, with improvements to standard static and custom dynamic routing, providing faster calculation times and more accurate results, even for complex and long-distance routes.
• World map coverage that can be used to plan and optimize routes anywhere on the globe.
• Enhanced planning that factors in seasonal and regional traffic patterns and an-ticipates future traffic incidents, enabling proactive route adjustments.
• Supported decision making through full route comparisons that consider cost, distance, time, emissions and regional regulations.