```json
{
    "title": "Legacy – 01 Usecase Territory Pavement EN",
    "url": "https://kardinal.ai/territory-pavement/",
    "datePublished": "2026-07-23",
    "dateModified": "2026-08-25",
    "language": "en-GB",
    "description": "Kardinal Pavement is the first automated solution for accurately and evenly dividing delivery territories into workload-optimized cells.",
    "author": "Kardinal",
    "publisher": "Kardinal"
}
```

# Legacy – 01 Usecase Territory Pavement EN

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Kardinal Use case

# Territory Pavement

Kardinal Pavement is the first automated solution for accurately and evenly dividing delivery territories into workload-optimized cells.

By leveraging your historical delivery data, it replaces manual territory splitting, which is often time-consuming and imprecise, by automatically generating a territorial grid perfectly aligned with real-world conditions, with no need for manual adjustments.

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[Contact us](#)

## Method showdown

Manual design, clustering, or Kardinal Pavement? We compared all three methods across five key criteria: time, homogeneity, field consistency, adjustments and coverage. See the results at a glance.

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Manual
 Clustering
 Kardinal Pavement

 Time spent
 Several weeks / months
 1 - 3 weeks
 < 1 week

 Cell homogeneity
 Hard to do manually
 Poor (based on parcel density)
 Excellent (based on working time)

 Field consistency
 Depends on human expertise
 Poor (splits rivers, road axes, etc.)
 Fully consistent with field reality

 Adjustments needed
 Depends on initial version
 Extensive manual adjustments required
 Estimated < 0.2%

 Coverage
 Often incomplete
 Depends on the method used
 Complete

## Kardinal’s approach

Create the most efficient tour plan without restrictions on the number of locations to visit or resources. Our algorithm takes into account your most complex constraints and considers traffic to provide consistent routes that save time and resources.

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Cell creation

Our technology automatically divides a country or region into balanced cells, designed specifically for delivery routes.

Our algorithms take into account:

 Real geography(roads, bridges, rivers...)

 Actual working times(including parking and urban density)

 Your business constraints(route duration, vehicle capacity, delivery time windows...)

 Significant time savings in creating cells
 5 days
 with Kardinal
 vs.
 6 months to 1 year
 manually

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Concrete example

 In the heart of Marseille, our Pavement algorithm automatically drew a cell that follows the quays and borders the east side of a major road that's impossible to cross. It is not luck, it is logistics logic.

## Benefits

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Time savings
 No more weeks spent manually adjusting cells.

 Better workload balance
 Drivers get fair and balanced zones.

 Smoother routes
 Fewer detours, U-turns, or unnecessary crossings.

 Simplified planning and sectorization
 Cells provide a stable, long-term structure.

 Better field adoption
 Assigned zones make sense to drivers.

 Nationwide standardization
 A single, consistent method for every region.

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Would you like to discuss your challenges with our team?
 [Contact us](https://kardinal.ai/contact)

## Resources

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