PTV xServer

Overview

If you integrate PTV xServer in your application, and you are interested in building up a service, that regularly calculates ETA, it is recommendable not to rely on the basic xServer functions, but on the specialized service for exactly that purpose: PTV Drive&Arrive.

The most important benefits from the PTV Drive&Arrive Service are

ETA is more exact, as in contrast to servers it allows you to combine drive- & rest times with historic and real time traffic information
It is more convenient, as made for this use case: you just create a tour, send positions to it and subscribe to the event to be informed about ETA
Has better route matching, as it creates and matches to a reference route
It is completely scalable, it grows with your demands
System for sharing the information with others, and you select which information they shall see
It comes along with a supporting Eco-system of application, that supports PTV Drive&Arrive like
- Free PTV Driver App to provide positions to PTV Drive&Arrive
- PTV Arrival Board, an application that can be used at ramps to monitor incoming trucks
- Creation tools like PTV Trip Creator to create ad hoc multiple stop trips for tests
- Viewers like trip viewers PTV Trip Viewer, to monitor the ETA of created trips
- PTV DA Analytics
- Connection to PTV Route Optimiser ST tour planning and PTV Map&Guide Route planner

With integrating the PTV Drive&Arrive API you can access the power of a specialized solution with a very simple business model.

How to

When you integrate PTV xServers in your application, you can complement them with PTV Drive&Arrive.

An API-description can be found in the PTV Drive&Arrive Developer Zone:
https://driveandarrive-v1.cloud.ptvlogistics.com/docs/