What is street level routing (SLR)?
Street-Level Routing (SLR) maps the best path for a vehicle traveling from Point A to Point B, and then estimates the travel time. It computes the distance on roads considering turn-by-turn directions; this means, it's based on the actual road speed and the expected speed based on the type of road.
You can manage mobile workers’ travel time and travel distance in a routing plan using the Street Level Routing (SLR) feature. It helps to optimize the route of a mobile worker who uses electric vehicles or any vehicle with limited range.
This feature can also be used with routing runs that run Manually, Once a Day, Recurrently and Sequentially; it is not available for Immediate routing runs. To improve the quality of the routing run with SLR, configure the plan with adequate time to gather enough SLR data. We recommend that you allocate a minimum of five (5) minutes for Once a day and Manual routing plans. This time will vary based on your business and the amount of activities to be optimized. You may increase the time if needed.
- Select the Use SLR to obtain travel data check box.
- Select the duration in the Time limit field to adjust the time limit accordingly.
The routing run time includes both gathering SLR data and using that data to run Routing.
In some situations when there are several pending activities, every point to point travel combination can't be obtained in the allotted time period. When this occurs, routing will use SLR data and learning travel data to optimize the routes. This ensures routes are optimized quickly with the best combination of travel data.