Release Notes
Explore the latest TrendRoute optimisation improvements, performance updates and operational enhancements.
TrendRoute V6 Released 28 September 2026 Latest release ↓
TrendRoute V6 Release Notes
Faster optimisation. Shorter routes. Better operational quality.
Executive summary
TrendRoute V6 is a meaningful step forward from V5. The goal was not simply to make the solver faster. V6 improves three dimensions at the same time: optimisation speed, total route distance, and operational route quality.
Operational quality measures how sensible a route is for real delivery work — including revisiting served areas, start/end progression, crossing edges, backtracking and unnecessary detours.
The result is a route that is not only efficient mathematically, but also easier for dispatchers and couriers to trust and execute.
V5 → V6 at a glance
| Capability | V5 | V6 |
|---|---|---|
| Optimisation performance | Baseline | 20% faster |
| Route distance | Baseline | 0.8% lower |
| Operational route quality | Primarily distance/time driven | 2.3% higher quality score |
| Route-building portfolio | 3 competing strategies | 5 strategies + final non-degrading improvement pass |
| Walking model | Straight-line estimate / simpler logic | Pedestrian routing, parking and walking-tour evaluation |
| Routing-data robustness | Relies on supplied matrices | Additional consistency checks and correction before planning |
Better operational route quality
The shortest route is not always the route that works best operationally. V6 evaluates candidate routes not only by travel cost, but also by how the route is structured and how likely it is to make sense to the people executing it.
Penalises leaving an area and later returning when the route could be completed more coherently.
Favors a more sensible route progression at the beginning and end instead of awkward geographic jumps.
Measures criss-crossing and doubling back that often makes a route look wrong to dispatchers and couriers.
Actively looks for awkward detours and skipped-then-revisited stops before the route is finalised.
Shorter routes without sacrificing shape
V6 is also 0.8% more optimised in total route distance than V5.
This matters because improving route shape can sometimes increase distance. V6 is designed to search for a better balance: strong route shape while still reducing kilometres travelled.
Across fleet-scale operations, a fraction of a percent compounds into meaningful reductions in driving, fuel, vehicle use and driver time.
20% faster optimisation
Despite evaluating more candidate strategies and more route-quality information, V6 is 20% faster than V5 in the headline V6-vs-V5 benchmark.
This allows planning and replanning to happen closer to departure time and increases the number of routes that can be processed on the same infrastructure.
What else is improved in V6?
Beyond the headline metrics, V6 strengthens several parts of the optimisation pipeline that matter in daily delivery operations.
A deeper route search
V6 evaluates five independent route-building strategies instead of three, then runs a final improvement pass designed to keep or improve the selected route rather than make it worse.
Smarter time-window handling
Time-window constraints are handled with stronger attention to the overall route structure, so the engine can preserve delivery promises without unnecessarily damaging distance or route quality.
Walking, parking & dense-area ETAs
V6 uses pedestrian routing to decide when walking is preferable to driving, where the vehicle should be left, and how nearby stops should form a walking tour. Walking time and parking behaviour are reflected more realistically in dense-area planning.
Routing-data validation & reproducibility
V6 adds consistency checks for routing data and can repair specific matrix inconsistencies before optimisation. Under the validated profile, identical input and configuration produce identical routing outputs.
How route selection changes
V6 adds operational quality to candidate evaluation, so the winning route is judged not only by distance and time, but also by whether its structure is sensible to execute.
What this means for operations
- Lower cost per route through shorter routes and faster planning.
- More natural route shapes, reducing manual re-sequencing.
- Faster replanning when orders or conditions change close to departure.
- More realistic dense-area planning where parking and walking matter.
V6 is faster mathematically, shorter in distance and stronger operationally — with 20% faster optimisation, 0.8% lower route distance and 2.3% better operational route quality than V5.
Download the official V6 Release Notes
Get the complete TrendRoute V6 Release Notes as a PDF, including benchmark results and the detailed optimisation improvements introduced in this release.