Traffic awareness - Amazon Location Service

Traffic awareness

Determines the type of traffic-related information used during route calculation. Flow traffic represents congestion, excluding long-term incident-related congestion. The accuracy of flow traffic data decreases over time, making historical traffic data more reliable for past events.

Parameter

Description

Routes

Routes Matrix

Isoline

Optimize Waypoint

Snap To Road

Usage

Enable or disable traffic data during route calculation. When enabled, if DepartureTime, ArrivalTime, or DepartNow are not provided, only long-term closures will be considered. Otherwise, if a time is provided, all traffic data is taken into account.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

FlowEventThresholdOverride

Duration in seconds for which a flow traffic event is considered valid. While valid, flow traffic data will be used over historical traffic data.

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No