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Customize Road Segments
You can instruct PC Miler Worldwide to either favor or avoid
certain roads when generating a route. To try this out,
let’s run a new route, then designate road segments to avoid
and favor and rerun it.
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Click the New Route button on
the tool bar to open a new route entry window.
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Enter “94550” (Chevilly-Larue,
FR, Val-de-Marne) as the origin and “75013” (Paris,
FR, Paris) as the destination of your route. Run the
route.
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Zoom into Paris by double-clicking it
in the route entry window stop list. Zoom in once more
by drawing a box around Paris and the area south of the
city on the map.
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Now let’s assume there’s a large
construction project on highway N7 south of Paris that
is causing traffic congestion. You want to avoid that
congestion by using highway A6 into Paris instead.
First, click on the Avoid Roads button on the
tool bar.
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On the map, click on the segment of
N7 that we want to avoid. Red cross-hatching will
appear.
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Next, click on the Favor Roads
button on the tool bar, then click on highway A6 as
shown below. Green crosshatching will appear. At this
point your map should look something like this:
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Open the Options dialog (click
Options in the route entry window for this route),
click on the check box next to Use Custom Roads,
and click OK. This step is
crucial to running a new route that includes the road
preferences you’ve designated. If custom routing
isn’t turned on, road preferences won’t be included in
the route calculations!
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Now click on Run to generate a
route with your new parameters. On the map, zoom into
the area around Paris again – your route now travels on
A6 and avoids N7!
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