Smart Mobility

Tailored Routing for Every Scenario

Overview

From humanitarian aid and climate action to optimizing delivery routes and analyzing mobility patterns, our products offer users a wide range of tools for data-based decision-making.

openrouteservice

openrouteservice is an open-source platform that uses OpenStreetMap data to provide mobility and accessibility analysis. Around the core engine sits an ecosystem of services and tools that can be integrated into diverse projects through our APIs. Following open science principles, we make our tools and research freely available for anyone to explore.

The features of openrouteservice can be explored in our map client.

our API services

Community Support

Research and applications

Clients

From Routing to Mobility Analytics

openrouteservice is a mobility analysis platform supporting transport, logistics, and accessibility studies. Beyond point-to-point routing, it computes isochrones, distance matrices, and multi-vehicle route optimization.

Routing

Calculate routes from point A to B using various transport modes such as walking, cycling, driving, and wheelchair.

Accessibility

Determine reachable areas within specified time or distance limits to perform detailed reachability studies.

Matrix

Generate large-scale matrices to calculate travel times and distances for thousands of points. With support for 50×50 origin-destination pairs in a single request, it’s ideal for scalable analysis.

Optimization

Solve complex logistical problems with multi-vehicle, time-window, and payload-aware optimization. Perfect for delivery routing, traveling salesman problems, and humanitarian operations.

Export

Access the underlying graph structure of the routing engine via the export endpoint. This allows for detailed network analysis, critical link identification, and the calculation of custom network indicators.

Snap to Roads

Align geographic points to the nearest navigable route with the snap endpoint, ensuring GPS data accurately matches the road network for precise mobility analysis and real-world applications.

Humanitarian Services

HeiGIT strives to support the community by providing innovative tools and services that benefit both the general public in their everyday lives and first responders in critical situations. Through projects that enhance disaster management and promote environmentally conscious routing, we aim to empower users with reliable and personalized navigation solutions.

Dynamic routing demo

In collaboration with the Logistics Cluster, led by the World Food Programme, we are adding route planning to their interactive LogIE map. The routing draws on Logistics Cluster data about the current status of roads, bridges, airports, ports, and border crossings. Humanitarian organizations rely on this information to plan and deliver cargo.

Healthcare Access

Using GIS isochrone methods, OpenAccessLens assesses healthcare facility catchment areas to determine accessibility and service coverage. By analyzing spatial data and travel times, the platform helps identify the population that can access these facilities, aiding in planning and resource allocation for improved healthcare access.

Sustainable Mobility

The meinGrün web-app suggests routes that prioritize paths rich in greenery, fostering eco-friendly travel and access to natural surroundings.

We also offer tailored walking and biking profiles that help users maintain a low carbon footprint, with details on trail slopes and conditions to match their fitness levels.

Heat-Avoiding Routing

We also provide environmentally sound, heat-avoiding routing. The shaded.openroutesrvice app steers users away from sun-exposed main roads, directing them through parks and shaded areas instead. It calculates these alternative routes using deterministic shadow modeling. The tool was originally developed within the transdisciplinary research project HEAL (Heat Adaptation for Vulnerable Population Groups).