If you’ve opened Google Maps or Waze lately and noticed your usual driving route seems longer or less direct, you’re not imagining it. Welcome to an era where navigation apps are prioritizing greener routes—even if that means adding a few minutes to your trip. What’s Behind the Change?
For years, plugging an address into your navigation app generally guaranteed the fastest route. That changed after France adopted Decree No. 2022-1199 in 2022. This law requires navigation apps and driving assistance services to emphasize “routes with the lowest impact in terms of greenhouse gas emissions”. At first, the rule seemed invisible to users. But in the past few weeks, these regulations have been fully worked into the route-planning algorithms, partly due to pressure from groups like Île-de-France Mobilités, the Paris region’s transit authority, which advocated for changes to help better manage traffic.
How Do the New Routes Work?
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