United Kingdom Delivery Route Mapping Software

The delivery route planning tools in Maptitude mapping software identify optimal routes for travel and deliveries among waypoints, calculate the distances between destinations, and produce driving directions.


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Why Choose Maptitude for Delivery Route Optimisation?

Maptitude is a powerful delivery route optimisation software that helps businesses save time, reduce fuel costs, and improve delivery efficiency. Whether you're managing a small fleet or coordinating large-scale logistics, Maptitude gives you the tools to create optimised delivery routes that meet a variety of operational goals: from speed and cost-efficiency to customer satisfaction and regulatory compliance. It adapts to your unique delivery scenarios and supports everything from local drop-offs to long-haul shipments with multiple stops and constraints.

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What are the Key Features of Maptitude Delivery and Route Optimisation Software?

Maptitude includes an extensive feature set tailored to delivery routing needs. Key features include:

  • Easy-to-use delivery route planning software for fleets of all sizes
  • Manually edit delivery routes by dragging paths to new destinations
  • Prioritise highway travel for faster long-distance delivery route optimisation
  • Generate detailed, turn-by-turn directions reports for delivery drivers
  • Nationwide delivery route planning with unlimited stops and destinations
  • Visualise and compare multiple optimised delivery routes on a single map
  • Automatically calculate estimated travel time and fuel costs for each route
  • Full suite of advanced route planning tools for complex delivery scenarios
  • Includes powerful business mapping software features for spatial analysis and logistics

These features allow you to tailor delivery routes with precision, meeting business needs while maintaining compliance with local and federal driving regulations.

Key Benefits of Maptitude Mapping Software for Delivery Route Planning

With Maptitude, you can easily create and optimise multiple delivery routes by factoring in travel speeds, customer locations, time windows, and other logistics variables. The software offers robust capabilities to streamline route planning and elevate customer service. Key benefits include support for:

  • Multiple vehicles, routes, depots, and customer delivery points
  • Variable time windows for deliveries and pickups
  • Flexible operating schedules from single to multi-day delivery routes
  • Multiple vehicle operation modes, including delivery, pickup, and backhaul
  • Customer-level settings such as order size, delivery/pickup type, time required per stop, assigned depot, and delivery availability windows
  • Time window settings for each depot or distribution center
  • Delivery vehicle type, count, cost, and capacity settings
  • Scheduling settings including mandated rest and break times for delivery drivers
  • Delivery route cost reports based on travel distance and estimated time
  • Route balancing tools to optimise by time, distance, cost, load, stops, fleet size, and more
  • Exportable delivery route reports in PDF or Excel, plus map graphics and interactive web maps via Maptitude Online  

Maptitude also supports advanced use cases like clustering customer locations, multi-vehicle routing, and street-based territory creation for more strategic route management.

Route map with multiple depots
Routes within territories

Additional Benefits of Delivery Route Mapping Software

Beyond optimizing deliveries, route mapping software like Maptitude offers several key advantages:

  • Cost savings: Last-mile delivery can account for up to 53% of total shipping costs.1 Route optimisation software helps reduce these expenses by up to 20% by calculating the most efficient delivery order, increasing visibility into operations, and eliminating unnecessary mileage.2
  • Improved efficiency: Companies that implement route optimisation typically reduce route length by 5–10%, which helps lower fuel usage and speeds up delivery schedules.3
  • Reduced environmental impact: Intelligent delivery vehicle rightsizing, choosing the best vehicle for the job, can increase fuel efficiency by up to by 40%.4 Maptitude routing software supports this by modeling delivery needs and selecting appropriate vehicles automatically, also reducing traffic congestion.
  • Enhanced customer service: Reliable and consistent delivery times improve customer satisfaction. The Maptitude time windows help ensure that deliveries arrive within expected time frames, reducing uncertainty for customers.5
  • Improved operations: Gain greater visibility into fleet activities, reduce driver fatigue with better route planning, and enhance overall safety for your drivers and cargo.

Maptitude is applicable to a wide range of businesses and individuals, including transportation, delivery, and field service companies, sales teams, commuters, and travelers. Whether you're running a delivery fleet or managing field operations, these benefits make route planning software an essential part of efficient, sustainable logistics.

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Aimee Barlow

“Using Maptitude to work out the closest members of staff to each store we visit has been incredibly helpful in reducing the travel done by our merchandisers, leading to positive environmental and financial results.”

  Aimee Barlow
Senior Data Analyst, eXPD8 Analytics
Bristol, United Kingdom
Best United Kingdom delivery mapping software map showing route that services a number of locations with the minimum driving time

Best United Kingdom delivery mapping software

Best United Kingdom route mapping software map showing fastest route between locations and waypoints

Best United Kingdom route planning software

Richard Horton

“We have found Maptitude to be a really useful piece of software. It allows us to quickly and easily represent various data geographically, and the ease of functionality and ability to layer data makes it really user friendly. It has, among other things, helped us develop our sector-leading delivery service and understand areas that require focus from our sales teams.”

  Richard Horton
Transportation Development & Planning Manager, Travis Perkins
Northampton, United Kingdom
Nigel Waters

“Caliper produces the inexpensive Maptitude desktop GIS package which has extensive GIS-Transportation functionality.”

 Prof. Nigel Waters
Calgary, Alberta

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Example: One of the big issues you face, especially if you are a delivery service, is ensuring efficient fleet management to stay competitive. Even small reductions in transportation time or cost can add up to big savings for your company. Your delivery drivers may make multiple deliveries per shift, where each destination has varying stop times, may require rest stops, and based on vehicle type has varying speed constraints and fuel costs. Maptitude can handle these scenarios for you and uses sophisticated algorithms that ensure that your vehicles take the most time-efficient and energy-efficient routes while making multiple deliveries.

What is the best software to optimise delivery routes? Maptitude!

The best route can mean different things to different people. Often the efficient route is the one that is the fastest, while others prefer the path that is shortest in terms of mileage, or a trip that maximizes use of highways, or avoids population centers:

  • A salesperson might want to set up an itinerary for less driving time and more time with customers
  • A chemical company transporting hazardous chemicals may want to uses roads that avoid areas where many people live or work

Maptitude is the best routing software for meeting all of the demands listed above, and uses an accurate and up-to-date street database. Maptitude routing and scheduling software handles one-way streets, and supports display of these on the map.

You can easily get started planning your route by simply clicking in a map on all the places you want to visit. You can also locate stops by typing an address, or automatically by using multiple addresses in an Excel spreadsheet or in any other table or database. If you have a point layer of your customers, you could select the customers you want to visit and then have Maptitude determine the best route to use to visit them.

There are also additional best route tools that allow you to:

Maptitude routing software Route Manager

Maptitude routing software Route Manager

Paul Lucassen

“The User Interface [offers] tools and features that are only a few clicks away with excellent inbuilt support pages and examples. The overall experience is very good, with the tools and features and plug-ins, the majority of logistics analysis projects can be executed.”

Paul Lucassen
Lucassen-Consulting

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Modeling Long-Haul Trips with Maptitude

When analyzing long-haul trips, an analyst often wants to model routes that go through the night or that have custom rest times. Maptitude allows you to create overnight routes or routes with no fixed end time. Also, the rest settings support government rules such as those for interstate truck drivers in the USA. Additionally, you can cluster your lists of customers sites that need visiting and optimise a route for each group of destinations.

Maptitude map of customers automatically clustered for route optimisation

Cluster your customer sites for route optimisation

Maptitude map of multi-day route

Create multi-day routes with built-in rest times

Multi Route Planning with Maptitude

When you need a multiple route planner, Maptitude helps you optimise each route by deciding which stops should be visited by which driver and vehicle. Maptitude even lets you choose the capacity and types of vehicle, supporting analysts that need:

  • A multi drop route planner software
  • A route planner with unlimited stops
  • A route planner multiple stops
multi drop unlimited stop route planner software application

Vehicle routing with time windows, vehicle constraints, multiple depots, route length constraints, and mixed pickup and delivery

Examples of optimisation of delivery routes with Maptitude

Planning your delivery routes for anything from food delivery to service calls requires robust analytics.

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