Utility Service Route Planning Software
Utility field operations fail when routes are planned on paper maps and spreadsheets. Drivant gives your crews optimized, territory-aware routes so every address is reached and no windshield time is wasted.
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Utility routes are sprawling and repetitive
Thousands of addresses across wide territories. Daily recurring runs. Crews driving past the same streets twice. Manual planning cannot keep up at scale.
Massive Territory Coverage
Thousands of meter locations spread across counties and municipalities. Paper-based routing means crews zigzag through territories instead of flowing through them.
Wasted Windshield Time
Unoptimized routes mean crews spend more time driving between stops than actually reading meters or performing inspections. Fuel costs and overtime add up fast.
Recurring Schedule Complexity
Daily, weekly, and monthly reading cycles across different zones. Building and maintaining recurring route templates manually is a full-time job by itself.
Multi-Crew Coordination
Splitting territories across crews fairly, handling call-outs and reassignments, and ensuring complete coverage when team composition changes day to day.
Built for utility field operations
Import your meter lists, define territories, and let Drivant build the most efficient route for every crew, every day.
Import Meter and Asset Lists
Drop in Excel or CSV exports from your utility management system. Drivant auto-detects addresses, asset IDs, meter types, and service priorities. No manual data entry or reformatting.
Territory-Based Route Building
The Route Builder clusters stops by geographic proximity and assigns them to crews automatically. Each crew gets a tight, efficient route through their territory with no overlap or backtracking.
Schedule-Aware Optimization
Set service durations per stop type. The optimizer sequences your stops to minimize total drive time and gives you projected completion times so you know if crews will finish their territory before shift end.
Export Crew Manifests
Generate print-ready route sheets with stop sequence, addresses, asset IDs, and projected times. Export to Excel, CSV, or GPX for GPS navigation devices. Every crew gets exactly what they need.
A typical day with Drivant
It is 6:00 AM at the utility operations center. Today's schedule calls for 640 meter reads across two residential zones and a 45-site pole inspection run in the commercial district. The dispatch coordinator exports each list from the asset management system, drops the CSVs into Drivant, and builds three territory-based routes, one per crew.
Crew one gets the north residential zone: 310 meters sequenced block by block so the reader parks once per street, walks the loop, and drives to the next cluster. The manifest shows meter IDs, addresses, and access notes for locked gates or dog warnings. Crew two handles the south zone with 330 meters in the same format. The inspector gets a priority-sorted 45-stop route through the commercial corridor with estimated inspection durations factored into the schedule.
At 11:00 AM a service disconnect order comes in that needs to be completed today. The coordinator adds the address to crew one's route, re-optimizes, and the stop slots in near a cluster the crew has not reached yet. By 4:30 PM both meter crews have completed their zones with zero missed reads, the inspector has documented all 45 poles, and tomorrow's routes are already built from the monthly rotation template.
One platform, every utility operation
Whether you are reading meters or inspecting infrastructure, Drivant handles the routing.
Meter Reading
Route readers through residential and commercial territories in the most efficient sequence possible.
Infrastructure Inspection
Plan inspection routes for poles, transformers, pipelines, and substations with priority-based sequencing.
Field Crew Dispatch
Split work orders across field crews by location and workload, then dispatch optimized routes to each team.
Territory Management
Define service territories, balance workloads across zones, and maintain recurring route templates as areas grow.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Drivant for utility service operations.
Can Drivant plan recurring daily meter reading routes?
Yes. Import your full meter list, and Drivant builds optimized routes that cover every address in the most efficient sequence. Save routes as reusable projects and adjust them as new meters are added or removed from your territory.
How does Drivant handle territory-based route planning?
The Route Builder automatically clusters stops by geographic proximity, creating territory-based routes that minimize backtracking and windshield time. You can assign specific zones to specific crews and rebalance territories as service areas change.
Can I import meter or asset lists from our utility management system?
Yes. Export your meter locations, inspection sites, or work orders as Excel or CSV from any utility management system, then import into Drivant. The import wizard auto-detects addresses, asset IDs, service types, and priority levels.
How does Drivant help with field crew dispatch?
Build multi-crew routes that split work orders across your field teams based on location and workload. Each crew gets a sequenced stop list with projected arrival times and service notes. Export manifests to Excel, CSV, or GPX for GPS navigation.
Can I plan routes for infrastructure inspection sequences?
Yes. Import inspection sites with priority levels and time constraints. Drivant sequences your stops to minimize drive time while ensuring high-priority inspections happen first. Add service duration estimates to get accurate schedule projections.
What export formats does Drivant support for field crews?
Export routes as Excel spreadsheets with stop details and asset information, CSV for integration with utility management systems, GPX for GPS navigation devices, or print-ready manifests with stop sequence, addresses, and projected arrival times.
How does Drivant handle monthly meter reading rotation schedules?
Build a route template for each zone in your monthly rotation and save them as separate projects. Load the correct template each reading cycle, add or remove meters as the service area changes, and re-optimize. Your base route structure is preserved while updates are handled in seconds.
Can Drivant handle routes with thousands of meter locations?
Yes. Import your full meter inventory and let the Route Builder split it into manageable crew-sized routes by geographic zone. Each crew route is independently optimized for minimal backtracking. Whether you have 500 or 5,000 meters to cover, the process is the same.
Does Drivant work for both electric and gas utility meter reading?
Yes. Drivant is asset-type agnostic. Import any list of addresses with meter or asset identifiers and the optimizer builds efficient routes regardless of whether you are reading electric meters, gas meters, water meters, or performing infrastructure inspections. Add service duration estimates per stop type for accurate schedule projections.
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