Map&Guide Professional 2010, World D0016-0101-1200 User Manual

Although its primary application is freight transport 
planning, map&guide professional successfully supports 
passenger transport planning, address visualisation, reliable 
route-based distance calculation and many other business 
processes. The software's major application areas are 
described below. 

 
Application area 
Planning truck transports 

Planning truck transport routes poses an entirely different 
software challenge from the more common application of 
passenger vehicle routing. map&guide professional has 
supported transport route planning for more than 15 years. 
It comes packed with features to help you with truck 
transport planning, including: 

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Application areas 

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Truck routing: map&guide professional comes with 

standard vehicle profiles for various truck types. That way, it 
will prefer more truck-friendly routes from the start. You 
can also strictly or generally eliminate a particular road, or 
give preference to other roads by assigning each truck its 
own vehicle profile. Your planned routes are specifically 
tailored to each vehicle type.  

Here are two examples: If you weight road types, you can 
avoid low-emission zones entirely or route heavy-goods 
vehicles on motorways as much as possible. You can even 
preset break durations in the vehicle profile.  

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(see p. 9): Attribute-based routing is essential for any 
forwarding agent who wants to avoid unnecessary detours. 
map&guide professional comes with up-to-date NAVTEQ 
truck and hazardous goods attributes such as height 
restrictions, total permitted weights and no-through roads. 
With this information, you can choose the right route from 
the start and avoid unnecessary delays and costs.  

 

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Individual road closures:  

Use the Road Editor to change individual road closures on 
the map, closing or opening individual roads (e. g. for depot 
entrances that are blocked for other road users).  

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Realistic scheduling and vehicle assignment planning: 

map&guide professional factors remaining travelling and 
shift times into its schedule-orientated route calculations. Its 
planning thus includes rest periods that are required by law 
based on the driver's previous routes.  

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Search for car parks:  

map&guide professional helps dispatchers find car parks 
along the selected route that should coincide with the time 
slots for calculated rest periods.  

 

 

 

 

map&guide professional 2010 helps you find additional 
loads along a planned route in order to bolster your bottom 
line.  

This functionality is provided by the Teleroute freight 
exchange, a module newly integrated with map&guide. 
With it, you can find freight offers on the exchange along a 
route, on a return trip, or at chosen stop-off points along 
the route, book them via Teleroute and then integrate them 
into your standard map&guide itinerary.  

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calculates all the extra costs of
picking up the additional loads.

By comparing these costs with the revenue from the 
transport order, you can easily see whether the order is 
profitable. Access authorisation 

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exchange is required to book specific loads.