Advanced Routing Engine
While most routing solutions in the market are used in location-based navigation, Skymantics’ Universal Routing Engine (SURE) addresses a gap in strategic route planning. Thanks to emerging capabilities in geospatial data interoperability and Machine Learning, decision-making in route design and planning can now be automated and customized for specific applications such as mobility, logistics, and disaster response.
Learn more about Skymantics work in geospatial services.
A universal tool for route network planning
If you are in charge of planning a network of routes for mobility, logistics, or emergency management, you likely face the challenge of acquiring a picture of an entire geography with a transportation network connecting multiple Origin-Destination (OD) pairs. The complexity of making decisions such as building roads, changing traffic patterns, or setting up intermediary hubs, is compounded by road or vehicle constraints, road blockages due to incidents, or traffic congestion patterns. All this is added to the difficulty of integrating geospatial data from different sources.
SURE can consume source maps and external data (e.g., Earth Observation or sensor), build route graphs with constraint criteria, and apply a variety of algorithms to solve customized route planning problems. Currently, SURE:
Is built on Open Source pgRouting/pygeoapi stack
Implements OGC standards: OGC API Routes, OGC Route Exchange Model, and OGC API Processes
Consumes OpenStreetMap, NSG, and HERE routes, plus custom road datasets
Consumes GTFS public transport data on stop location and route schedules
Supports multimodal transport calculations
Configures geospatial constraints in road segments (vehicle size/weight, obstacles, departure/arrival times, road blockades)
Uses Machine Learning to infer speed limits, average speed, congestion and delays based on traffic signals, rules, and expected traffic volumes
Would you like to see SURE at work? Test its capabilities using our Open Source client (downloadable here). The SURE test server is accessible here.
SURE in action
SURE’s versatility makes it applicable to solve route planning problems across industries and application domains.
Applications
- Land management
- Logistics optimization
- Travel time/emmisions assessment
- Catchment areas
- Emergency routes
- Evacuation priorization
- Health coverage
SURE has a long history of demonstrating a variety of use cases:
Calculation of geography-based demography of U.S. population in synthetic data for the U.S. Department of the Treasury. - Learn more about our synthetic data solutions
Calculation of best routes to disaster and evacuation priorities in emergency situations for first responders and local agencies – OGC Disasters Pilot 2021 / Smart City Interoperability Reference Architecture (OGC SCIRA Pilot). - Learn more about our work in emergency response
Asset location optimizations for supply chain and logistics planning using Machine Learning algorithms – OGC Testbed-15 Machine Learning thread. - Learn more about our work in forestry management
Calculation of frictions in inter-modal transportation changes in urban and peri-urban areas (funded by European Commission – SESAR2020 Modus Consortium). - Learn more about our work in passenger transportation and mobility
Do you have a need in route planning? Contact us to query about SURE and request a demo today.