The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Co-Optimization of Vehicles and Routes (CoVaR)

To Improve Commercial Transportation System Efficiency This completed project, CoVaR, co-optimized vehicle and route efficiency for commercial fleets. Key advances included improving RouteE energy models into fast lookup tables and integrating Single Vehicle Multi-Stop (SVMS) functionality into the Fleet Management System (FMS) and Intelligent Driver Assistance System (IDAS). This powertrain-agnostic technology was validated to achieve a potential ≥25% Fleet Freight Efficiency Improvement by optimizing configuration, routing, and driver guidance for various vehicle types.