Travel Time Matrix API Use Cases

What is a travel time matrix?

A travel time matrix calculates travel times between many origins and many destinations.

It’s our alternative to the other Distance Matrix APIs on the market, which calculate distances between many origins and many destinations.

Practical applications

Search filtering UX

Your users can select their desired search location as well as their preferred transport mode and maximum journey time.

Search result filtering back end

Remove any unreachable location-based search results that don’t fall within a travel time limit.

Search results listing UX

Speed up user decision making by displaying travel times to every search result in a list view. Users can quickly compare, qualify and dismiss results.

Search relevance modelling

Drive conversions by ranking the most relevant results at the top of the page. Use feature engineering to balance TravelTime Search with other important features. Build a results page that prioritises what users need the most.

Employee commute analysis

Select the best location for a new office by calculating and comparing thousands of employee commute times. Commute cost analysis available for public transport in the UK.

Features

Calculate travel times from one origin to multiple destinations (or vice versa)

The number of travel times you can calculate within one matrix depends on your plan. One matrix credit on the free plan includes times from one origin to one hundred destinations. One credit on the Scale plan includes times from an origin to 5,000 destinations within one search.

Multiple origins x multiple destinations

Combine multiple Travel Time Matrix API search requests to get a travel time matrix grid.