ALK Technologies released the PC*Miler 25 product line, which now includes time-based features and other enhancements
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A core enhancement allows users to specify a route's departure or arrival date and time to calculate an ETA at stop-off points or an ETD to help meet delivery schedules. Additionally, PC*Miler 25 allows users with real-time traffic maps and traffic forecasts to calculate the best routes as well as more precise transit times and ETAs.

Through a partnership with INRIX, an international provider of traffic information and driving services, ALK has added real-time and historical traffic speeds to its routing network. Users can see real-time traffic maps as well as access traffic forecasts for more than 1 million miles of roads across the United States and Canada.

To introduce this capability to customers, this traffic speed data is included free of charge in PC*Miler 25 and will remain so until the release of PC*Miler 26 in 2012.

PC*Miler 25 also has an expanded capability to calculate toll costs for both heavy and light vehicles, with the addition of automobile toll costs. Users can now calculate toll costs based on time of day travel, vehicle weight, axle configuration, single or multiple trailer designation, and for 31 discount toll programs in the United States and Canada. ALK has also updated its toll plaza abbreviations for easier toll cost reporting, verification and auditing.

The new release also includes map tools to create geofences. When a route crosses a geofence, PC*Miler 25 either displays a warning in the route itinerary or avoids the geofenced area altogether, depending on user preferences.

PC*Miler 25 includes nearly 220,000 new and updated truck restrictions and allowances in addition to over 3.74 million road-specific attributes that affect truck travel. These include height, length, width and weight restrictions, and allowances. In addition, 53-foot trailer and state oversized routing restrictions have been enhanced. 2011 U.S. ZIP and Canadian Postal Codes, as well as over 28,300 Mexican Postal Codes, are now included in the database.

PC*Miler runs on Microsoft Windows, UNIX, and Linux platforms as well as IBM AS/400 and mainframe computers.

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