Plan a car journey

The RAC is always looking for new ways to help you plan your journey. Our new maps feature adds to the functionality of the route planner to help find hotels, garages and car dealerships by location.

The RAC map also enables you to display weather information for the UK so you can plan your journey based on the driving conditions. The route planner will give you a list of directions to your destination, and each individual direction has its own mileage, helping you to keep on track and stay clear of wrong turnings.

Before you head out make sure you’re covered with breakdown cover so you can get back on the road if anything should happen on the way.

Automobile Association Developments Ltd. Planning a journey. There are lots of tools you can use to help you plan your journey to avoid congestion and get to your destination on time. Always plan your journey before you set off an if possible, plan alternative routes in case there’s a problem with your original route.

Outside the car ’s sat nav, the following tools and apps are recommended: Pod Point Network - First check the Pod Point app. If there’s a conveniently located and suitable Pod Point for your journey, then you know your car will be charged reliably.

We hope you like all the fantastic free information on Drive-Alive as well as our class-leading route planner.

So please come back to Drive-Alive to book ferries, hotels, apartments, holidays homes and car hire using the booking links. ViaMichelin can provide a detailed journey cost for any car or motorcycle route : fuel cost (with details on fuel costs for motorways and other roads) and toll costs (information for each toll used). If you have entered your vehicle model, the cost will be calculated according to its consumption levels. Total Distance: 0km: Total Time: 0m.

A few lost turns will result in extra, unnecessary, mileage. Also, if you have a few errands to run, try to take care of them all in one longer trip rather than making several shorter journeys. Here are our top tips for journey planning: Know your route in advance – use a sat nav, a route planner or a road atlas to plan your trip if you are not certain that you know the way. Make sure your car is prepared – check the tyres, oil and water and fill up the windscreen wash before you leave.

Fill up – make sure you have plenty of fuel. It doesn’t make any sense to cut it too fine – what if you get stuck in a big traffic jam somewhere and run out?

Speedy Route can plan your route for a single vehicle or multiple delivery vehicles, and will produce the optimal route for the number of delivery vehicles you have available. If you set the number of available delivery vehicles to be more than one, the calculated route may use any number of vehicles up the maximum available. To plan a Return Journey, select the Add return journey option (apps only).

Step – Quick plan options (part 1) Create a ‘quick plan’ based on your EV model and system defaults. Alternatively edit battery, charger search and filter options to create a customised route plan.

The start of the route being appended must be near the end of the route it is being attached to. If there is a gap, a interconnecting path will be automatically plotted between the two routes, taking into account the Auto-Plot mode you have selected.

Save time by adding your most used journeys, buses, stops and places to your favourites. Make sure you add on 25% extra to the estimated time to account for traffic and frequent breaks. Do you need information on public transport?

Click here for quick and convenient journey planning and timetable information. Get traffic information to plan your journey Use these online tools to get information about traffic and roadworks on motorways and A roads in England.

Live traffic information. Free online route planning with multiple destinations. There are many developments in transportation, such as fuel efficient cars and much more.

But it also includes innovative route planning via the Internet. RouteXL understands this and offers the perfect solution to get the best directions. Select a car : Start: Destination.

Find Charge points around where you are centered. Energy Consumption. For car and motorcycle routes you can choose from the following variants: Michelin recommended: this route option focuses on safety, simplicity and minimising any risk of route errors.

This is the default route that Michelin recommends. The quickest (prioritising time): this route option takes the least time to reach the destination.

Enter where you want to start and finish your road trip, and then discover the coolest “off the beaten path” places along the way. Our database includes millions of the world’s most fascinating places, making planning the unexpected easier than you thought.