ViaPlanner
Cost-Aware Route Scoring for EU Fleets
Your cheapest route is not your shortest one. A 100 km detour can cost less than the direct line once fuel, tolls, weather and load are in the math. ViaPlanner scores every plausible route on landed cost per trip and shows dispatchers the breakdown against the naive shortest and fastest options — on the Rotterdam → Munich reference corridor, −€36 per trip against the shortest route and −€54 against the fastest ETA.
Discuss Your Project →Dispatchers are flying blind on landed cost
Today's routing tools optimize for distance or for ETA. Neither one tells you which route actually costs your fleet the least money to drive. Diesel prices swing €0.10–0.20 per litre across a single corridor. Toll bills shift sharply by truck class — a heavy five-axle pays far more than a light rig on the same road. Headwinds and steep grade quietly push fuel burn above the spec sheet, and a loaded trailer drinks noticeably more diesel than an empty one, with the gap compounding over a corridor. None of that reaches the screen: a driver picks "shortest" because it is the only number shown.
What prompted the project
Fleet operators did not need another recommendation engine. They needed the cost of each option made explicit, inside the tools they already run.
Score Routes on Landed Cost
Turn every trip into one comparable number — fuel plus tolls plus the weather and traffic delta — instead of distance or ETA.
Model Tolls by Truck Class
Toll cost has to be computed per segment against axle count, gross vehicle weight and Euro emission band, not averaged across a corridor.
Make Fuel Load-Aware
Consumption curves must reflect loaded versus empty running, priced against regional diesel refreshed daily.
Show the Math
Dispatchers will not take a longer route on trust. Every recommendation has to land beside the shortest and fastest with the cost stack visible.
Sit Alongside the TMS
Score every route without replacing the systems the operator already runs — a column in the existing workflow, not a migration.
Why an expert partner was required
The hard part is not finding routes — it is pricing them honestly, from inputs that move daily, and then earning a dispatcher's trust with the answer.
What We As Web delivered
Every trip comes down to three numbers: fuel cost plus toll cost plus the weather and traffic delta equals landed cost per trip. ViaPlanner computes all three for every candidate route, then shows the stack.
The Three-Term Cost Model
Fuel, tolls and a weather-and-traffic delta, resolved into one landed cost per trip.
Live Inputs, Recomputed on Change
Truck profile, regional daily fuel feed and per-segment toll model, each refreshed independently.
The Dispatcher View — Show the Math
Every recommendation lands beside the naive shortest and fastest, with the cost stack visible. No black box.
Integration — a Column, Not a Replacement
We score every route. We do not replace your TMS.
A 50 km detour that pays for itself
The corridor figures below come from the Rotterdam → Munich reference example (14 t loaded, Euro VI) as modelled by the engine. The fleet-level findings are from pilot deployments in Q1 2026 and are illustrative of early-stage results rather than a completed rollout.
On the reference corridor the recommended route lands at €487 against €523 for the shortest — 7.4% cheaper across 50 km more distance, driven almost entirely by the toll spread.
Against the fastest route at €541, the recommendation saves 11.1% per trip — the real cost of buying 50 minutes of arrival time, made explicit rather than absorbed.
In pilot deployments the recommended route beat the dispatcher's default on the majority of trips tracked — per-truck savings that compound across a fleet without asking drivers to take routes they refuse.
Telematics adapter, truck profiles and dispatcher onboarding — We As Web leads the lift, and the engine runs alongside the existing TMS rather than replacing it.
A scoring engine that prices what routing tools ignore
Load-aware consumption curves, a regional diesel feed refreshed daily, per-segment toll modelling by truck class, and a live weather and traffic delta — surfaced through a dispatcher view that shows the cost stack, and fed by an adapter into the operator's existing telematics and TMS.
Dispatchers do not need another recommendation engine
They need to see why the longer route wins. Fuel, tolls, weather and load are all knowable at planning time, and together they decide what a trip actually costs — yet the only number on the dispatcher's screen is distance or ETA. ViaPlanner turns those inputs into one landed cost per trip and puts the recommendation beside the naive shortest and fastest with the full cost stack exposed.
On the Rotterdam → Munich reference corridor that is €36 per trip against the shortest route and €54 against the fastest, for a stated +50 minute ETA trade — savings that compound per truck and per corridor, without changing routes drivers refuse to take. What the pilot fleets found was that the breakdown changed the conversation — the argument stopped being about detours and started being about diesel spreads. The engine scores every route; the operator's TMS stays exactly where it is.