Route Optimisation Focus

When it comes to deliveries, each business has different priorities based on agreements with customers, contracts with Drivers and overall business environmental objectives.

In traditional route optimisation engines, the main focus has often been simply reducing total distance traveled. But in the real world, every business is different, and distance alone doesn’t define success.

Introducing Route Focus

Radaro empowers you to set the right focus for your operation. Whether it’s fair work distribution across drivers, prioritising urgent or high-value jobs, reducing the number of routes to maximise fleet efficiency, or balancing overall cost with service excellence, our platform adapts to your business goals.

Instead of a one-size-fits-all approach, you define the focus—and the system optimises to achieve your objective.

To successfully use the Optimisation Focus, it is important to understand the following:

1. Minimise Unassigned and Minimise Cost are mandatory
2. The order of the Focus’ impacts the optimisation result

Focus Options

There are 11 different Focus options.

Subject to the configuration of your account, some or all of the below options may be visible and from the visible list, you can select and reorder to achieve your goal.

1. Minimise Unassigned: The optimisation focus will aim to allocate all jobs to the available Drivers.
2. Minimise Cost: Reduces overall solution cost by favouring the cheapest combination of vehicles, distance and driver time.  To work effectively - driver costs must be set within the Driver profile (inert link)
3. Minimise Route Counts: The optimisation focus will use the smallest number of Drivers/vehicles to service all jobs.  Drivers may be left out of the optimisation, and Drivers included may have longer routes.  
4. Maximise Route Counts: This optimisation will deliberately spread work across as many Drivers/vehicles as possible to shorten individual routes.
5. Minimise Distance: Prioritises the fewest total kilometres, regardless of how long each run may take.
6. Minimise Duration: Cuts the total driving time across all runs, even if that adds extra kilometres.
7. Maximise Priority Jobs: Ensures high-priority jobs (VIP orders, service calls under SLA) are scheduled first, assigning lower-priority work only after the VIPs are locked in. (add link to Priority Jobs)
8. Visually Appealing Tours: Creates routes that look clean and intuitive on a map, trading a little efficiency for clarity that’s easy to brief to drivers and show to customers.
9. Minimise Routes Overlap: Keeps routes geographically separate to avoid criss-crossing drivers in the same suburbs, making areas of responsibility clear.
10. Maximise territory jobs: achieves desired jobs distribution between vehicles considering the territories in which these vehicles operate.  This focus will only work when Territories are created and applied to all Drivers.
11. Balance duration: This focus will attempt to balance the time/duration across all routes.