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Routing
Travel your way
Whether on foot, in a personal car, commuting by transit, or transporting goods by commercial vehicle, get directions that suit how you and your drivers need to travel. Make multi-route and multi-vehicle planning easy with a routing API that adapts to your unique journeys.
Routing Services
Routes API
The Routes API accommodates multiple stops and can be personalized for your preferred vehicle. Supporting traffic alerts and route optimization, this routing API enables both individuals and businesses to travel in a way that suits them.
Creators and logistics personnel save time and fuel by planning routes that incorporate real-time traffic data. For better clarity, you can also overlay your routes over high-res imagery enabled by spatial data.
Truck Routing API
Bing Maps’ Truck Routing API matches road limitations to your fleet’s particular requirements to help create routes free of delays, reroutes and obstructions. Fleet managers can create efficient routes and automate manual processes with this sophisticated API.
Fleet tracking and multi-route planning are helping logistics providers avoid closed and congested roadways, driving down costs.
Distance Matrix API
Maximize efficiency in both single destination and many-to-many scenarios utilizing Distance Matrix API so that you can calculate time and distance to key destinations. The routing API supports multiple agents and considers historical traffic data to provide optimized routes for both consumer and commercial applications.
Entrepreneurs often use this route creator API to expand their business and prospective client or customer base, optimizing for local foot traffic data, regional travel trends, and more.
Snap to Road API
The Snap to Road API is a convenient way of transforming GPS coordinates into actual paths using spatial data. Instead of manually working through multiple sets of coordinates and plotting them on a map, fleet managers can use this API to automate and add value with extra features.
Supporting multiple transport methods and multi-route planning, the Snap to Road API considers local speed limits to visualize paths that are relevant to the user’s locale.
Routing in Action
How We’re Changing Routing
Real estate planning – Determine future house location based on school, medical services, fire and rescue, work location, etc.
Business expansion – Gain insight about unfamiliar locations and operate across time zones with location intelligence.
Retail and restaurants – Optimize delivery from distribution centers to retail locations or from restaurants to customers.
Routing by Bing Maps
Whether you’re on foot, in a personal car, commuting by transit, or transporting goods by commercial vehicle, the Bing Maps Platform has routing and route optimization services to meet your needs.