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Ray-of-Sunshine Regular Visitor
Joined: Jul 21, 2007 Posts: 73
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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 3:36 pm Post subject: Fatest Route v's Limited Speed |
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What speeds are used by my TT One when calculating a journey on motorways, dual carriageways, A roads, B roads
The reason I ask is I was planning a route I will be travelling in a couple of weekends from now with a 7.5 ton lorry, I normally use the limited speed option to get a more acurate journey time as the route my TT One would normally be about the same.
But on this journey I am in a not sure which route to take naturally travelling by motorway or dual carriageway is always preferable but I would normally cruise along these flatter road between 50-60mph but on some of the more twisty A-roads we have up here in scotland I can only really average about 40-45mph at times hence my dilema below;
Fastest route: 2hr 10 mins 95 miles most dual-carriageway but a fairly long stretch of A-road probably lets say 12 miles of unknown and probably hilly twisty road.
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Limited speed set at either 45-50mph: 2hrs 12mins 85miles at the point the road splits into a more direct route to the destination it a primary A-road but most of the time I would average about 45mph I would guess but then I still have about 15 miles of unfamiliar A-road before turning to take a further 12 miles of different A-road that of used in the fatest route to arrive at my destination in another direction to the route above.
There lies my dilema, using TomTom in a 7.5 ton is less than ideal but I use the lorry for my hobby and can't justify the expense for a more fully commercially suitable sat-nav, its a pity that you can't setup profiles of vehicles and road type preferences that I used to be able to do with "Auto Route Express" software on my PC.
Anyway can anybody answer the question what speed setting does TomTom One use when calculating a journey on motorways, dual carriageways, A roads, B roads etc.? |
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Oldboy Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Dec 08, 2004 Posts: 10643 Location: Suffolk, UK
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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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I haven't done any experiments lately, but in earlier versions Motorways and de-restricted dual carriageways seem to be 62 mph.
A roads with a 60 limit seemed to be 52 mph, and down to back roads at 27 mph.
Whether this has been 'adjusted' in the latest software I haven't had a chance to check. _________________ Richard
TT 910 V7.903: Europe Map v1045
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Ray-of-Sunshine Regular Visitor
Joined: Jul 21, 2007 Posts: 73
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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you "oldboy" yip that kinda matched what my best guess was around those sort of limits, it a pity the tomtom one doesn't have some sort of user defined profiles in addition to the existing choices of travel that we could select in the same menu as fastest, shortest, walking , bicycle etc., where we could set our own prefered speeds to match our own driving styles to allow more accurate times for journeys and road preferencies as well so we could personalise out TomTom's more.
I believe on some of the other TT units you can tweak a file somwhere relative to route choice but I dont think its possible with the TT One v2 |
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DennisN Tired Old Man
Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 14901 Location: Keynsham
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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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Autoroute has recently moved away from this - I can no longer choose a speed for each different type of road, merely drag a slider up or down from "average" to more or less than "average" (it doesn't tell you what the average is!!). The shame is that choosing TT's Fastest, shortest, limited speed or any other type is not satisfactory. I was surprised to find this customisation not available on my satnav.
Personally I have found from trying recently, that TT seems to work out at an average overall journey of about 60mph. That's just rule of thumb though and I myself generally use 50mph as a guide for my trips, but varied according to my personal estimate of how much decent motorway/dual. For London, I just say I'll get there when I can - I left at 5:30am one day last week, due to deliver before 9:30 and originally TomTom gave me an ETA of 7:35 - I got there at 9:10! _________________ Dennis
If it tastes good - it's fattening.
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falkirk81 Pocket GPS Verifier
Joined: Jul 07, 2006 Posts: 1649 Location: Newcastle, England, UK
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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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Using a view demo method only, it appears that the tt1 3rd edition has the following limits set
estates and housing areas - 19mph used for calculations
30mph zone - 36mph used for calculations, yes it does say 36!!
40mph zone - 40mph used for calculations
50mph zone - 49mph used for calculations
60mph zone - 55mph used for calculations
70mph zone - 69mph used for calculations
Motorway @ 70mph - 69mph used for calculations
Hope this helps _________________ Tomtom GO 1005 LIVE
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Andy_P Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 19991 Location: West and Southwest London
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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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Ray-of-Sunshine wrote: |
I believe on some of the other TT units you can tweak a file somwhere relative to route choice but I dont think its possible with the TT One v2 |
Very early versions of the Navigator software used to have user adjustable sliders, but none of the stand-alone units have ever had it. A tweak has never been mentioned on any of the websites or forums I know of, but if there is one, EVERYBODY would like to hear about it. |
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Ray-of-Sunshine Regular Visitor
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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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falkirk81 wrote: | Using a view demo method only, it appears that the tt1 3rd edition has the following limits set
estates and housing areas - 19mph used for calculations
30mph zone - 36mph used for calculations, yes it does say 36!!
40mph zone - 40mph used for calculations
50mph zone - 49mph used for calculations
60mph zone - 55mph used for calculations
70mph zone - 69mph used for calculations
Motorway @ 70mph - 69mph used for calculations
Hope this helps |
Your a genius "falkirk81" why didn't I think of doing that, now I know I'm thick as mince. |
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falkirk81 Pocket GPS Verifier
Joined: Jul 07, 2006 Posts: 1649 Location: Newcastle, England, UK
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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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Well i hate to brag, but its the first thing that came to mind. Although i dont understand why in a 30mph limit the speed it 36mph?? _________________ Tomtom GO 1005 LIVE
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Ray-of-Sunshine Regular Visitor
Joined: Jul 21, 2007 Posts: 73
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 12:08 am Post subject: |
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Andy_P2002 wrote: | Ray-of-Sunshine wrote: |
I believe on some of the other TT units you can tweak a file somwhere relative to route choice but I dont think its possible with the TT One v2 |
Very early versions of the Navigator software used to have user adjustable sliders, but none of the stand-alone units have ever had it. A tweak has never been mentioned on any of the websites or forums I know of, but if there is one, EVERYBODY would like to hear about it. |
Yip my mistake it was older units like navigator and TT3 also had options to set speed settings, as far as routings to avoid small roads for hgv's appartantly the tip is co pilot 6 has a Motorhome feature where you can tell it what kind of roads to avoid such as small roads and no u-turns etc.
But appartanly both navteQ and teleatlas have produced hgv routeing and data in to the map data they supply to tomtom and other suppliers but as yet know one has taken up the data. Weird if true as there would be a big market for that as you would expect the price would be reasonable even the touring caravan market could find that very usefull indeed |
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Pufin Occasional Visitor
Joined: Mar 01, 2006 Posts: 47 Location: Walsall, West Midlands, U.K.
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 1:05 am Post subject: |
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Interesting, as a taxi driver I use my tt500 to work out how long it would take to go from the base to a customers for a booked time. Anything more then a few miles away, the tt can be wildly out. I mean I often or not get there way too early. As most of my work is done in the early hours (no traffic). I can say that I have driven to a location at 20 to 25mph on 30 / 40mph roads, and still been early. So I would have to say that Time/Speed factors are set higher then they need be. And before anyone says that these are "more" than ideal traffic conditions, I still get simular times in peak traffic conditions. _________________ Want to get lost, forget your Tomtom next time you go out?
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technik Lifetime Member
Joined: Mar 18, 2004 Posts: 789 Location: Midlands UK
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 1:20 am Post subject: |
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I have always found the arrival time about right!
I drive at warp licence losing speed most of the time, and yet the arrival times are always about right.
Most of my journeys are in excess of 25 miles. |
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Ray-of-Sunshine Regular Visitor
Joined: Jul 21, 2007 Posts: 73
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 9:27 am Post subject: |
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falkirk81 wrote: | Well i hate to brag, but its the first thing that came to mind. Although i dont understand why in a 30mph limit the speed it 36mph?? |
Did a few tests last night and if the speed limit is known to be 30 then TT will sit at 30 but if the speed limit is unkown by TT it will sit at 36 even though we know the road to be a 30 limit. I can only presume TT takes an average of between 30-40 as it knows it a residential area from the map even though the speed limit is unknown |
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Ray-of-Sunshine Regular Visitor
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 9:33 am Post subject: |
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technik wrote: | I have always found the arrival time about right!
I drive at warp licence losing speed most of the time, and yet the arrival times are always about right.
Most of my journeys are in excess of 25 miles. |
By arrival time, you do mean you entered an arrival time when you planned the route and that on the display there is an area showing how many minutes you will arrive before or after the set arrive time. an I works out fine, well thats good but if you mean the arrive clock showing what time your actually going to arrive bear in mind that automatically adjusts itself so it will always be there or there abouts the closer you get to your destination. |
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Robin2 Lifetime Member
Joined: Nov 24, 2003 Posts: 1441 Location: Swansea
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not convinced that TomTom does use the demo speeds for calculation of ETA. If I am driving when the roads are very quiet, and able to maintain a steady speed of 30mph, I gain on TomTom and my ETA keeps getting earlier. On motorways at a steady 70 I just about keep up with the ETA, and it hardly changes. On single carriageway A roads, at an average of about 50 I am gaining rapidly on the ETA, and over about 50 miles from Abergavenny to Swansea on the A465 I can bring the ETA forward by about 20 minutes. TomTom always tries to take me the much longer way via the A449 and M4, because it is convinced that the journey time is shorter, but it greatly overestimates the A465 time.
Robin _________________ TomTom One v3 Europe, Navcore 7.903, Western Europe 835.2420
TomTom Go 720 Europe, Navcore 8.351, Western Europe 855.2884
Satmap Active 10
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Oldboy Pocket GPS Moderator
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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There have been 2 Threads on this Topic.
One earlier this year, and Another last year. _________________ Richard
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