Control Travel Time Through the Routing Plan

Routing has been improved by better utilizing point-to-point SLR travel distances and timings along with travel statistics. Subscribers of Oracle Field Service Enterprise Cloud Service have the option to limit the travel time for a resource to reach an activity.

You can control travel time through the Routing Plan. With improved Travel time section of the routing plan settings, you can add the option to choose the optimization type and set distance limits.

To control Travel time

1. Open the Routing Plan. Scroll down to display the Travel time settings.
2. Choose either time or distance depending the routing plan settings as follows:
   • Prefer fastest routes, even if it means the increase of a total travel distance—Indicates that activities might require lengthy travel but the total travel time for the entire bucket is optimal. This option is the default option and results in the most optimized routes.

   • Prefer shortest routes, even if it means the increase of a total travel time— Indicates that activities might require a longer travel time but the total distance travelled will be optimal.

   You can minimize summary travel if some specific activities are getting long travel or some activities are left unassigned and summary travel may be increased. This enables you to limit the amount of travel time or distance a resource can spend travelling for any one activity. This results in fewer assigned activities and less optimal routes, but eliminates any travel that is beyond the specified amount of time or distance.

3. Check the following fields and enter the time limit in minutes and the distance limit in miles:
   • Avoid travel longer than __ minutes
   • Avoid travel longer than __ miles
   Note: If no value is set in the in the Individual travel limit, minutes field, it will use a default value, 240 minutes. Similarly if no value is set in the in the Individual travel limit, kilometers field, it will use a default value, 200 kms.