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Functional and behavioral changes

2026-03-18

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RTGS-1294Improved avoidance of small roads for trucks > 7.5 tons.

2026-03-09

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RTGS-4876Improvements to travel time estimations for commercial vehicles in United Kingdom, Italy, Luxembourg, and Australia.

2026-01-30

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RTGS-4157Improved handling of time-dependent restrictions.

2026-01-13

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RTGS-4928Improvements related to handling of dirt roads in truck routes.

2025-12-16

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Traffic patterns updated in India for improved travel time estimation.

2025-12-02

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RTGS-4777Improved U-turn handling in truck routing mode

2025-11-24

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Traffic patterns updated in APAC for improved travel time estimation.

2025-07-02

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HERESUP-13547Routing will now consider the sideOfStreet parameter for waypoints when snapping to a junction to better ensure compliance with no-through and delivery-only restrictions.

2025-07-01

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RTGS-3142Revised penalties for different types of restrictions in order to improve routing behavior in heavily restricted areas, for example city centers.

2025-06-20

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RTGS-3819Route calculation now respects number of tires restrictions.

2025-03-01

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HERESUP-4613Specifying an invalid or unsupported language in the routing request will now fall back to en-us, rather than giving an error and failing the calculation. A warning will be returned that the requested language was not found.

2025-01-20

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RTGS-2174Route handle creation is now limited to a maximum of 250 sections.

2024-11-24

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RTGS-1940When requesting dynamicSpeedInfo spans, a new span will not be created due only to a change in turnTime from 0 to a value. The turnTime in that case will be merged into the previous span.

2024-10-28

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RTGS-1231Optimized truck turn costs in order to produce more convenient routes.

2024-09-20

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RTGS-1306Extend avoid U-turns functionality to prevent using small roundabouts for U-turning, which is usually inconvenient for trucks

2024-08-29

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RTGS-149We are now avoiding routing through closed intersections.

2024-08-28

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HERESUP-666Adjusted speeds on roads in Chile to be more realistic (usually higher). This impacts both route choice as well as duration.

2024-08-08

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ROUTING-25707Avoiding tolls and vignettes now works correctly for all transport modes. Time-dependent tolls and vignettes are now properly supported.

2024-07-17

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ROUTING-27281A new algorithm is now used for calculating alternative routes for most transport modes (with the exception of pedestrian, bicycle, and scooter). The new algorithm is able to find alternative routes in significantly more situations, with notable improvements for truck mode. The quality of alternative routes is also often improved.

2024-07-08

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ROUTING-21627We have improved penalties on entering and leaving highways via slip roads due to traffic incidents

2024-05-28

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ROUTING-25149Route calculation now prefers RIMP road network when transporting hazardous materials in Spain

2024-04-24

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ROUTING-25009We have improved travel time estimations for trucks. Comparison to real-life travel times indicates significantly increased ETA prediction accuracy, with the biggest improvement expected for heavy trucks in The United States of America.

2023-11-10

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ROUTING-25874Route import now properly supports taxi mode. Previously such requests were handled by using car mode.

2023-09-19

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ROUTING-25789If Routing is not able to retrive tolls on route within 7 seconds it will return a route without tolls and provide a notice

2023-09-14

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ROUTING-25748A new algorithm is now used for calculating EV routes with auto added charging stations (requests with parameter ev[makeReachable]=true). The resulting routes have generally better ETA, they better avoid traffic jams, and there will be fewer situations when a charging station is added for a short charging period. With these improvements it should now be possible to calculate longer charge aware EV routes.
ROUTING-24764The Route Import engine now provides better support for pedestrian and bicycle matching, by matching to segments that are normally closed to car traffic.
ROUTING-23510Re-aligned penalties in Routing, which were previously being reduced when using "short" mode. Using local streets and gates will now be more heavily penalized in short mode, to align better with how those features are penalized in fast mode.

2023-08-01

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ROUTING-25148Improved truck routing algorithm to use more arterial roads like highways or expressways, whenever it is possible with only a minimal increase in the driving time. This improvement mainly applies to the following scenarios: A) Driving on local city roads close to the origin / destination. Now routing prefers to enter a nearby arterial road earlier / exit it later. B) Using narrow rural roads for long-distance drives or to connect between highways. Now routing prefers to use arterial roads / stay on them instead.
ROUTING-25591Routing response now returns Pool id for EV stations in EV charge-aware routes instead of station id due to increased stability of the ids.

2023-03-07

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ROUTING-24359Car mode is updated to use traffic speeds which are not capped to the speed limit. This improves ETA quality by using traffic speeds which are more accurate.

2022-10-20

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ROUTING-23778Temporary roll-back of the truck-routing improvements based on CVRs due to some instances of negative customer feedback. We plan to re-introduce the changes once the concerns are addressed.

2022-09-15

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ROUTING-18914(NOTE: Rolled back - see above) Improvements to travel time estimations for trucks. This includes using speed limits as defined by the HERE Commercial Vehicle Regulations data product. Analysis of the new travel time estimates using sample probe data show significant improvements in ETA accuracy.

2022-04-20

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ROUTING-22598Set limit of post body size to 10mb

2022-03-01

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ROUTING-20726ETC-only toll booth notice is shown only for corresponding transport mode

2022-01-26

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ROUTING-21801Increase timeout of route import's map matcher to 20s

2021-11-29

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ROUTING-18363Avoid controlled access highway also avoids limited access roads along with controlled access roads

2021-09-09

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ROUTING-20729Only the routing zones that are relevant to the vehicle type of the request will be returned in the spans and return types.

2021-07-22

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ROUTING-20414Route handle stability is improved. Route handles will no longer be invalidated by map updates unless the topology of the segments used by the route is updated.

2021-06-01

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ROUTING-15690Changed algorithm for the majority of truck requests. The truck routes returned by the service now have better quality. More truck routes now get successfully calculated.

2021-05-21

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ROUTING-20080Allow invoking return to route for a route handle

2021-04-30

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ROUTING-19979 and linkedImplemented tolls service

2021-03-30

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ROUTING-19113Updated notice title to "Violated avoid areas." for input avoid[areas]

2021-03-17

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ROUTING-19115Use min_speed_motorways in the scooter routing algorithm
ROUTING-18127Allow highway usage for scooter if explicitly requested

2021-02-18

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ROUTING-18271Increased junction radius to 10 to improve waypoint matching at junctions.

2021-02-10

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ROUTING-19136Support Congestion Pricing (Toll Zones) in v8

2021-01-26

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ROUTING-17407Softening of truck restrictions. Violated truck parameters no longer lead to failed route calculations in all cases. If truck restrictions could not be avoided, a route may still be provided, along with violations explained as notices.

2021-01-19

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ROUTING-18857Routing zone information into route response
ROUTING-19010Support Vignette Zones in v8

2021-01-18

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ROUTING-18650Taxi and bus routing modes
ROUTING-18907Use station_id as EV charging station external id
ROUTING-18496adjust math formula for proper rendering
-Remove keep resource-policy for gemini k8s service
ROUTING-17425Add parameter for license plate
ROUTING-18213Expand docs for avoid
ROUTING-18996Dev deployment process fix and description

2021-01-12

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ROUTING-18589Allow routes to go through emergency gates if there is no other choice.

2020-12-14

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ROUTING-14945Added avoid[zoneIdentifiers] and avoid[zoneCategories] parameters

2020-12-03

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ROUTING-18204Optimize route selection with speed cap parameter for scooter mode

2020-12-02

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ROUTING-18048Truck mode deprioritizes functional class 5 streets in route calculation

2020-06-17

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ROUTING-16363Roure handle requests fail when violating exclude parameter.
ROUTING-16363Route handle requests support departureTime without local timezone.

2020-06-16

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ROUTING-16363Route decoding fails when route contains forbidden segments for the specified transport mode.

2020-06-12

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ROUTING-15305Added pedestrian[speed] parameter

2020-05-28

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ROUTING-14554Implement pass-through waypoints in Gemini request

2020-05-14

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ROUTING-15017Added HOV lane routing support over vehicle[] parameter

2020-04-24

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ROUTING-16612Car mode deprioritizes functional class 5 streets in route calculation

2020-04-09

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ROUTING-16209Support extended version response

2020-04-09

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ROUTING-15893Add language of localized strings at the section response level

2020-03-23

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ROUTING-14654Added traffic feed in Japan.

2020-03-20

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ROUTING-15019Add avoid areas to avoid options

2020-03-11

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ROUTING-16070Expose elevation in polyline and Location if return contains elevation

2020-03-06

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ROUTING-16201Limit floating point precision to 7 digits

2020-02-21

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ROUTING-15981UTurnAction, RoundaboutEnterAction, RoundaboutPassAction and RoundaboutExitAction now also report direction.