trip planner

[trtog7]

Has anyone found a trip planner that you can set for a specific number of miles or hours you want to drive in a day?
Find it very hard to figure out where my next stop will be

[afidel]

NCC-1701 wrote:

Rick Jay wrote:
I can't help with any specific software, although I'd be interested in knowing if any existed as well, BUT, I can add that we average about 50 mph on the road when travelling on highways 60-65 mph. The 50 mph average includes fueling stops, walk the dogs stops, and stretch your legs stops. Sometimes those are combined. We usually don't stop to eat as we have prepared meals we eat while travelling down the road.

You might be able to use the 50 mph as a guide and adjust it accordingly to the speeds and style of travel.

~Rick

I think Rick makes a very good point. Unless the software allowed you to put in YOUR personal average MPH, including the kinds of breaks, fuel stops, etc. that YOU usually take, the output is meaningless since it may not use the parameters that fit your travel style. I know that when I use trip planners, which usually give you an estimate of the TOTAL travel time needed, it's way faster than I would ever make it. In fact, some travel planners I've used literally must assume you always drive the top-end speed limit and NEVER stop...not even to fuel!

With big vehicles and lots of weight, I personally don't like going much more than 60 or 65, and with breaks every couple of hours to stretch my legs and let the dogs "do their thing" I am also at about 50 mph average. So I don't pay any attention to what the trip planner tells me. I just look at the mileage and knowing my average is 50 MPH, just do the calculation myself.

Both Furkot and RVTripWizard allow you to set your average speed and RVTripWizard allows you to set your max miles per day.

[D_E_Bishop]

We plan by POI's for the most part and we use a paper map for laying out the entire trip and then decide where to stop each night. Google Chrome has good maps and gives you miles and hours. I don't think you can program your speed but if so I set it at 50 MPH. One program I used gave one alternate route and times based on different traffic conditions. I think it was Google Chrome.

We have only planed one trip where we did each day, normally we can guesstimate with a paper map.

[RGar974417]

Map quest tells you how many miles and how many hours to a destination.

[Veebyes]

enblethen wrote:
Some are shown on ebay
Streets and trips

WOW! Some crazy prices being asked there.

[enblethen]

Some are shown on ebay
Streets and trips

[ktmrfs]

Us out West wrote:
How long has it been since Streets & Trips was discontinued?

There are alternatives some being mentioned here.

I think the last release was 2013. I suspect copies can still be found. IMHO it's still a very worthwhile product.

[Us_out_West]

How long has it been since Streets & Trips was discontinued?

There are alternatives some being mentioned here.

[ktmrfs]

NCC-1701 wrote:

Rick Jay wrote:
I can't help with any specific software, although I'd be interested in knowing if any existed as well, BUT, I can add that we average about 50 mph on the road when travelling on highways 60-65 mph. The 50 mph average includes fueling stops, walk the dogs stops, and stretch your legs stops. Sometimes those are combined. We usually don't stop to eat as we have prepared meals we eat while travelling down the road.

You might be able to use the 50 mph as a guide and adjust it accordingly to the speeds and style of travel.

~Rick

I think Rick makes a very good point. Unless the software allowed you to put in YOUR personal average MPH, including the kinds of breaks, fuel stops, etc. that YOU usually take, the output is meaningless since it may not use the parameters that fit your travel style. I know that when I use trip planners, which usually give you an estimate of the TOTAL travel time needed, it's way faster than I would ever make it. In fact, some travel planners I've used literally must assume you always drive the top-end speed limit and NEVER stop...not even to fuel!

With big vehicles and lots of weight, I personally don't like going much more than 60 or 65, and with breaks every couple of hours to stretch my legs and let the dogs "do their thing" I am also at about 50 mph average. So I don't pay any attention to what the trip planner tells me. I just look at the mileage and knowing my average is 50 MPH, just do the calculation myself.

thats the big advantage to streets and trips. it lets you adjust your average speed in town and on the road and put in time between rest stops and rest stop times, and how many hours/day you want to travel, predicting gas stops etc.

After a couple of trips using streets and trips, I have adjusted those setting to our likeings and it is able to very accurately generate a route with timing that matches up very closely with our actual experiebce.

[trtog7]

You have it right That is what I am looking for.
Everytime I do it myself my next stop is in the middle of nowhere
Only want this for long traveling distance like when you are heading south to get away from the snow That also adds an extra problem as to what campgrounds are open

[NCC-1701]

Rick Jay wrote:
I can't help with any specific software, although I'd be interested in knowing if any existed as well, BUT, I can add that we average about 50 mph on the road when travelling on highways 60-65 mph. The 50 mph average includes fueling stops, walk the dogs stops, and stretch your legs stops. Sometimes those are combined. We usually don't stop to eat as we have prepared meals we eat while travelling down the road.

You might be able to use the 50 mph as a guide and adjust it accordingly to the speeds and style of travel.

~Rick

I think Rick makes a very good point. Unless the software allowed you to put in YOUR personal average MPH, including the kinds of breaks, fuel stops, etc. that YOU usually take, the output is meaningless since it may not use the parameters that fit your travel style. I know that when I use trip planners, which usually give you an estimate of the TOTAL travel time needed, it's way faster than I would ever make it. In fact, some travel planners I've used literally must assume you always drive the top-end speed limit and NEVER stop...not even to fuel!

With big vehicles and lots of weight, I personally don't like going much more than 60 or 65, and with breaks every couple of hours to stretch my legs and let the dogs "do their thing" I am also at about 50 mph average. So I don't pay any attention to what the trip planner tells me. I just look at the mileage and knowing my average is 50 MPH, just do the calculation myself.

[Veebyes]

ktmrfs wrote:

enblethen wrote:
Find an old copy of Microsoft Streets and Trips. Believe the last one was 2012. I have been getting updates for it at times. Roads do not change that much. Some information does for campgrounds and other destinations.

yes streets and trips has some nice features we use to estimate times.
1) you can specify start or finish time time each day
2) you can specify what time or location or distance you want to stop at
3) you can adjust your average speed to a % of posted speed
4) you can specify how often and how long you plan for rest stops
5) you can enter tank size and fuel economy and it will tell you where to expect to stop for gas.
6) you can specify how long you want to stop each destination, either in hours, overnight or X days. So you can plan your route day by day,

We usually use streets and trips to plan our initial route, gives us a good estimate of when to leave, when to arrive etc. the adjust as necessary.

Yes, it's old, but in reality not that much change in roads.

just need to find a copy, 2013 was the last year it was published.

A computer geek friend found a site to download a 2013 version of S&Ts. It is out there somewhere.

As you say, roads don't change much. There are new intersection layouts, sections of highway re aligned, businesses that come & go, but the basics are there.

The trip is worked out on S&Ts. This year it is Alaska. 140+ days, 14,000 miles all planned out on the "Master file". From that once the trip starts a "Daily file" is created from that each evening & is used for navigating & often making changes on the fly.

The stand alone GPS gets the intended end of day location & is left to complain when we go off its preferred route as we go along.

[bacil]

I use ROADTRIPPERS it allows you to show attractions X miles from your planned road, it know some not all campsites, also have options for dinning etc.

Example is ur small RT in 2014 only 3000 miles with all the interesting places we wanted to see with my friends from Belgium 🙂

Mind you we went in convertible and not rv so we stayed in motels and cottages at that time 🙂

[Rover_Bill]

trtog7 wrote:
Has anyone found a trip planner that you can set for a specific number of miles or hours you want to drive in a day?
Find it very hard to figure out where my next stop will be

Try Garmin BaseCamp (it's FREE). Has both miles and hours/day settings. You can also set it for car mode and/or RV mode and it will accept the RV dimensions and weight limits. After you set your planed route, you can export it directly into your Garmin GPS.

[ktmrfs]

enblethen wrote:
Find an old copy of Microsoft Streets and Trips. Believe the last one was 2012. I have been getting updates for it at times. Roads do not change that much. Some information does for campgrounds and other destinations.

yes streets and trips has some nice features we use to estimate times.
1) you can specify start or finish time time each day
2) you can specify what time or location or distance you want to stop at
3) you can adjust your average speed to a % of posted speed
4) you can specify how often and how long you plan for rest stops
5) you can enter tank size and fuel economy and it will tell you where to expect to stop for gas.
6) you can specify how long you want to stop each destination, either in hours, overnight or X days. So you can plan your route day by day,

We usually use streets and trips to plan our initial route, gives us a good estimate of when to leave, when to arrive etc. the adjust as necessary.

Yes, it's old, but in reality not that much change in roads.

just need to find a copy, 2013 was the last year it was published.