Car routing

The car transport mode allows calculation of car-specific routes, using real-time and historical traffic information. For example, a car route follows highways accessible only to cars, avoids incompatible areas such as pedestrian zones, and respects road restrictions including one-way streets and time-dependent access like seasonal closures.

The car transport mode is enabled by setting transportMode=car. In this mode, the API uses only the roads open for cars. It supports most of the routing features such as:

• High-occupancy vehicles (HOV) and carpool lanes
• User-specified speed cap
• Speed cap per Functional Class
• Fast and short routing modes
• Avoid options, as well as avoid areas and segments
• Alternative routes

Time- and traffic-aware functionality of the routing API is enabled by default. This refers to the following features:

• Traffic-aware and optimized routing
• Time-awareness: restrictions are applied only during the periods when they are in effect

To disable these features, specify either departureTime=any or traffic[mode]=disabled.

Billing note: time- and traffic-aware routing can incur additional transaction charges (Time Aware Routing vs. Car Routing).