There’s a reason why big city residents would rather commute in crammed monorails and subway trains instead of navigating through road traffic, forgoing the comfort of a personal vehicle. Since the travel time remains a virtual constant, office executives are able to plan their days with efficiency and are seldom late for meetings or appointments.

The mounting road traffic density has also given birth to the use of drone-aided doorstep drops by several American and Chinese food delivery and e-commerce websites. With this need to minimize driving or walking time spilling over to many such industries, organizations in the delivery sphere are actively looking for solutions to improve efficiency. RouteSmart Technologies, a route optimization software technology firm based in Columbia, MD, is driven by the mathematical goal to minimize non-productive travel time, by designing a specific plan to maximize the productivity of field service personnel. As a result, its clients are traveling fewer miles and spending lesser time, and are hence enjoying increased productivity with balanced workloads.

In particular, the organization solves complex routing problems for various clients in the delivery services industry; it specializes in high-density, mode-specific— walking or driving—optimization solutions for the utilities landscape. Traditionally, its role in the utilities market was routing clients to a metering device for capturing consumption data. However, the influx of heavy-duty technology has significantly altered both the requirement and the marketplace.

The industry underwent a sea change with the advent of the Advanced Metering System (AMI) which removed the need for utilities to visit a meter physically and capture consumption data. “More utilities are coming to us and are admitting that their historical ritual of visiting a meter to capture consumption data has gone away. We’re helping them not to capture data, but to create routes to fulfill compliances, and thereby conduct all the inspections within a certain timeframe,” explains Sean Carroll, Business Development, Utilities, RouteSmart Technologies.

To its clients, varying from newspaper distributors, waste management service providers, utilities, and parcel companies, RouteSmart Technologies provides three options.