A batch mode route request contains one <start_location> element and one or more <end_location> elements.
The result of a batch mode route request contains multiple routes. Each route is from the start location to one of the end locations. Each route in a batch mode request is completely separate from all the other routes except for the shared start location.
Batch mode route requests may contain several batch mode specific attributes. These attributes include cutoff_distance and sort_by_distance. These attributes are explained in Route Request XML Schema Definition.