HERE Technologies announced HERE Tour Planning, a new suite of premium capabilities designed to help transportation and logistics operators with the EV transition across the last-mile, while improving planning accuracy, adherence to regulations and navigating dynamic delivery environments.
“Static route planning doesn’t reflect the reality fleets face today,” says Bart Coppelmans, senior director of product management at HERE Technologies. “With new variables emerging, increasing complexity and electric vehicles becoming part of daily operations, logistics providers need richer features that tailor optimization to their specific business metrics, KPIs and SLAs.”
HERE Tour Planning combines AI-powered predictive intelligence with EV-ready optimization in a single, integrated planning tool.
Key takeaways:
- EV Planning: Based on HERE testing, this capability can deliver up to 20% better planning and routing of electric vehicles through:
- Learning each vehicle’s unique operating profile, including battery range characteristics and other vehicle specifications that impact performance.
- Creating delivery tour plans with up to 15% better ETAs that are feasible for a specific EV or EV fleet using a real, physical consumption model to calculate remaining range rather than broad assumptions.
- Ingesting a fleet’s private EV charge point locations or leveraging intelligent charge point recommendations from HERE’s public database of more than 1.9M EV charge point locations and attributes.
- Time-Based Variables: This AI predictive intelligence capability incorporates dynamic, real-world constraints to reduce delays, improve ETA accuracy and deliver smoother end‑to‑end operations by:
- Allowing logistics managers to proactively adjust for disruptions such as temporary road closures or shifting traffic congestion.
- Giving dispatchers improved operational efficiency and enhancing compliance with time-restrictions, such as pedestrian zones or delivery window constraints.
- Minimizing delays drivers experience from incorrect scheduling of restricted zones or other time-dependent variables.
