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Planning a route in advance
You can use your TomTom Connect to plan a route in advance, selecting your starting point and
your destination.
Here are some more reasons to plan a route in advance:
Find out how long a journey is going to take before you start.
You can also compare journey times for the same route at different times of the day or on dif-
ferent days of the week. Your TomTom Connect uses IQ Routes when planning a route. IQ
Routes calculates routes based on the real average speeds measured on roads.
Study the route of a journey you are planning.
Check a route for someone who is coming to visit you and then explain the route to them in
detail.
To plan a route in advance, follow these steps:
1.
Tap the screen to bring up the Main menu.
2.
Tap the arrow button to move to the next menu screen and tap
Plan route
.
This button is shown while there is no planned route on your TomTom Connect.
3.
Select the starting point for your journey in the same way that you would select your destina-
tion.
4.
Set the destination for your journey.
5.
If Route planning settings are set to
Ask me every time I plan
, select the type of route you
want to plan:
Fastest route
- the route which takes the least time.
Eco route
- the most fuel-efficient route for your journey.
Shortest route
- the shortest distance between the locations you set. This may not be the
quickest route, especially if the shortest route is through a town or city.
Avoid motorways
- a route which avoids motorways.
Walking route
- a route designed for making the journey on foot.
Bicycle route
- a route designed for making the journey on a bicycle.
6.
Choose the date and time that you will make the journey you are planning.
Your TomTom Connect uses IQ Routes to work out the best possible route at that time. This is useful
to see how long a journey takes at different times of the day or on different days of the week.
Your TomTom Connect plans the route between the two locations you selected.
Viewing route information
You can access these options for the route you last planned by tapping
View route
in the Main Menu
or the
Details
button on the route summary screen.
You can then select from the following options:
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