Delivery Route Optimization

A delivery route optimizer reorders a list of stops so the total driving time drops. Courier Route Planner does it in one tap on Android, on real road data, for routes from 5 to ~100 stops.

59 unsorted delivery stops collected on the map, ready for one-tap route optimization — Before: 59 stops, no order.

Optimized 59-stop courier route — 27.9 miles, 8h 59 min, Start Route ready — After: 27.9 mi · 8h 59min, ready to start.

What the optimizer actually does

This is the classic Travelling Salesman Problem: given N stops, find the order with the shortest total drive. For more than ~12 stops the exact answer takes too long to compute on a phone, so the optimizer uses a heuristic — it produces a near-optimal order in seconds.

The cost function is real travel time, not straight-line distance. One-way streets, no-left-turns, bridges, divided highways and turn restrictions all matter. Two pins that look 200 m apart on the map can be 4 minutes apart by car.

Locked start, open finish

The first stop stays where you put it — typical for couriers loading at a depot, warehouse or hub. The last stop is open by default (return to start is one toggle). Everything in between is what the optimizer reorders.

Where it beats Google Maps multi-stop

Google Maps lets you add intermediate destinations, but it does not reorder them — they stay in the order you typed. It also caps at 9 stops on most platforms. For a 30-stop parcel run that means manual sorting beforehand, which is the slow part.

Courier Route Planner reorders the full list automatically, then hands each leg off to Maps or Waze for turn-by-turn — you keep the navigation app you trust.

Built for the way real shifts unfold

Fixed-order pickups. Lock the pickup stop and the optimizer keeps it ahead of its drop-off — pickup-then-deliver chains stay intact.

Appointments and windows. Anchor a stop to a time the customer expects you, and the optimizer routes the rest around it without moving the anchor.

From a handful to a full van. Same one-tap optimize whether you have a dozen stops or close to a hundred — the workflow doesn't change with route size.

Ready to optimize?

Build the stop list, lock your start, tap Optimize, drive. Multi-stop route optimization is on the free tier.

Run the optimizer free