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PTV ROUTE OPTIMISER

PTV Route Optimizer is evolving. Meet PTV OptiFlow.

PTV Route Optimiser carries more than 40 years of PTV Logistics routing and optimization expertise. But its planning approach has stayed largely static, while modern road logistics keeps raising the bar. Growing order volumes, tighter delivery windows, and unpredictable traffic add complexity every year. As the market changes, our technology changes with it.  

PTV OptiFlow provides best-in-class, automated route optimization, powered by advanced traffic models and customizable cost parameters. It's fully automated route optimization, accessible through conversational AI. Ask PTV Mira a question in plain language, and get an optimized, explainable answer within minutes or build the same engine into your own systems via PTV Developer.

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PTV Route Optimiser continues to serve thousands of planners every day, and our team is here to support you. As your operations grow more complex, PTV OptiFlow is the natural next step in PTV Logistics route optimization: fully automated, cloud-based, and built on the same optimization heritage you already trust. Whenever you’re ready to explore it, we’ll help you find the right pace. 

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Why modern road logistics needs more than manual planning 

Planning an efficient route once meant balancing a handful of stops and a few constraints. Today, a single plan has to weigh vehicle capacities, driver skills, delivery windows, depot locations, regulations, and constantly shifting traffic, all at the same time. As networks scale, the number of possible combinations grows far beyond what manual or static planning can realistically evaluate. 

The result is familiar to most planning teams: routes that look fine on paper but fall apart on the road, hours lost to replanning, and costs that creep up quietly. Manual planning isn’t wrong. It has simply been overtaken by the complexity of modern operations. That’s the gap automated route optimization is built to close. 

PTV OptiFlow: route optimization that’s ready for what’s next 

PTV OptiFlow provides best-in-class, automated route optimization powered by advanced traffic models and customizable cost parameters. It enables highly realistic, feasible, and scalable transport planning for companies of all sizes. It distributes orders across your fleet and calculates efficient multi-stop routes while accounting for the constraints that matter to your business. 

As every operation defines “efficient” differently, PTV OptiFlow optimizes against your priorities, whether that is time, distance, capacity, or workload, rather than a fixed formula. 

The cost-based optimization algorithm provides this special flexibility. PTV OptiFlow plans against your real cost drivers rather than distance alone, and it treats your rules as hard or soft constraints, so absolute limits stay absolute while preferences are traded off intelligently. It also levels loading and unloading across docks and time slots and enforces depot-level load caps, so plans respect the throughput of your sites, not only the capacity of your vehicles.  

PTV OptiFlow is available in the form that fits how you work: 

PTV OptiFlow (SaaS) is an intuitive planning application your team can use day to day 

PTV Mira is a conversational interface for strategic and tactical questions, answered in minutes 

PTV Developer is a customizable API engine to embed the same optimization directly into your TMS, ERP, or own software 

One optimization engine, three ways to use it, so you adopt at the pace and depth that suit your operation. 

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What you gain

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Lower transport costs

Reduce your transport costs 10–30% by optimizing cost drivers and fleet utilization
Improved traffic flow

Reliable, realistic plans

Traffic-aware routing creates realistic plans that boost punctuality, cut failures
Faster planning

Plan faster, scale further

Cut planning time by 60–80% and scale to thousands of orders without more planners
CO2 reduction

Greener operations

Fewer excess miles cut fuel use and CO₂ by 5–20%, with built-in emissions reporting

What PTV OptiFlow does 

  • Automate complex, multi-stop planning: Generate optimized daily delivery and pickup routes across multi-stop, multi-depot operations, automatically and fast enough to replan when the day changes. 
  • Optimize around your real constraints: Time windows, vehicle specifications, driver skills, depot rules, and regulatory limits are handled as hard or soft constraints, so plans reflect how your business actually runs. 
  • Plan with real-world traffic: Time-dependent traffic models based on historic patterns produce realistic arrival times rather than distance-only estimates, so schedules are feasible from the start. 
  • Integrate with your systems: A cloud-based, API-first architecture connects to common TMS, ERP, WMS, and telematics systems, so optimization fits into your existing workflow rather than replacing it. 
  • Explore scenarios conversationally with PTV Mira: Ask strategic and tactical questions about fleet sizing, network changes, or peak-season planning, and get optimized, explainable answers in minutes. 

Last-mile delivery

Last-mile delivery is the trickiest and most expensive part of the supply chain, often 30–50% of total delivery cost, and every failed drop, traffic jam, or wrong turn drives it higher. Manual planning can’t weigh all the factors that shape a last-mile route. 

PTV OptiFlow assigns shipments to vehicles, builds a schedule for the whole fleet, and calculates optimized, traffic-aware routes, so last-mile operations stay efficient even as volumes and expectations rise. 

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Emissions calculation and reduction

Optimized routes are greener routes. By calculating efficient routes across your fleet and cutting excess miles, PTV OptiFlow lowers fuel consumption and emissions, typically a 5–20% CO₂ reduction. And with emissions values available per trip, you can produce a CO₂ report for customers who ask for one in just a few clicks. 

PTV OptiFlow can also handle mixed or electric fleets. 

Prefer to build it into your own software? 

If you’d rather embed optimization directly into your existing logistics or telematics stack, PTV Developer gives you the same engine as an API that is scalable, flexible, and straightforward to integrate. 

Learn more about PTV Developer 

See what modern route optimization can do for you

Whether you’re optimizing your first routes or rethinking planning across a complex network, our team can show you what’s possible with PTV OptiFlow, and if you’re a PTV Route Optimiser customer today, help you find the right path forward. 

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