Navigation is becoming reasoning

HERE used IAA Transportation to demonstrate its next generation approach to commercial vehicle routing.

The company is introducing more AI driven intelligence into fleet operations, combining mapping, routing information and driver feedback.

This points towards another important evolution.

Traditional navigation answers:

How do I get there?

Commercial navigation adds:

Vehicle height.

Vehicle weight.

Road restrictions.

Hazardous goods restrictions.

Traffic.

Delivery windows.

AI enabled routing could go much further.

Imagine a system considering:

Vehicle dimensions.

Battery range.

Charging availability.

Driver hours.

Weather.

Historical collision risk.

Roadworks.

Fuel price.

Customer priority.

Vehicle condition.

And delivery penalties.

Then selecting the optimum journey.