Postal Routing and Local Delivery Logistics: Letter Carrier, Home Delivery, B2B, Daily and Fixed Planning

For postal and local delivery operations, RouteSmart always delivers.
Industry leaders depend on RouteSmart for achieving maximum efficiency through route optimization software solutions. Global and national operations such as FedEx Home Delivery and the United States Postal Service know that every minute and every mile counts. That’s why both of these organizations rely upon RouteSmart for precise street address-level routing via a toolset that is continually being refined.

RouteSmart for ArcGIS is ideal for route planning and analysis tasks associated with letter carrier delivery, small package delivery, letter box pick-up route planning, and other B2B and B2C distribution operations.

A few of the unique features and benefits of RouteSmart include the following:

• Routing solvers for balancing and clustering workloads based on route time, number of routes desired, volume of mail/parcels, or geographic designation of routes (seed points)
• Models large volumes of address data (tens of thousands of addresses on up!) in a rapid fashion using contemporary computing hardware
• Supports evaluation of operational impacts of service offerings such as drop box location assignment and delivery or pick-up time of service commitment changes
• Create routes based on driving, walking and mixed mode routes including "park and loop" style routing. Constrain loops on either volume of mail or time.
• Automatically determine service modes for areas to be served via walking or driving service using unique “Determine Service Mode” feature.
• Complete support for modeling travel factors such as restricting delivery vehicles from traveling over streets in non-productive (dead-head/wind-shield time) fashion
• Account for and model time of service restrictions (time windows) for insuring unique pick-up and delivery time commitments for each customer.
• Factor for unique service times at each customer based on delivery or pick-up volumes. Additionally, account for extra distance and time spent walking within buildings or large facilities.
• Reduces the number of personnel, vehicles, vehicle miles, nonproductive time and expensive overtime required for operations
• Prints detailed driving directions and maps of service areas, individual routes, itineraries, etc.
• Evaluate multiple "what if" scenarios to quickly analyze and appreciate routing changes to dynamic or fixed routes before they are implemented.
• Complete support for end-user localization and tailoring of the interface. Full support for left or right side driving patterns, miles vs. kilometers distance measurements, etc.
• RouteSmart Macro Language for automating routine routing processes such as importing and exporting data and reports on a daily basis
• Operates in a GIS-based environment to enable powerful, complex spatial analysis of business data and route structures. Uses open ESRI databases natively for storing data and accessing it or exporting it to other applications
• Solvers available for licensing to embed in customized routing applications and business systems.

RouteSmart software operates on top of the ESRI ArcGIS technology platform and uses highly accurate street data from NAVTEQ to power its solution. We maintain official business partner status with both ESRI and NAVTEQ to insure your solution is up to date and able to use their latest technologies. Contact us today to learn more about our experience and capabilities and to match your requirements.

Contact our industry expert directly:
Chris Walz
8850 Stanford Boulevard, Suite 3250
Columbia, MD 21045
800.977.7284 or 410.290.0226
cwalz@routesmart.com