Hey Wazer,
We’re excited to share our new Advanced Training Course on Segment Restrictions!
This training is designed to equip you with the skills needed to accurately reflect real-life traffic restrictions in the Waze Map Editor.
Whether you’re looking to expand your editing capabilities or deepen your understanding of complex traffic scenarios, this course is for you!
In this course, you’ll learn how to:
- Reflect real-life traffic rules by applying accurate road and turn restrictions.
- Guide drivers through toll roads, HOV and fast lanes, and restricted zones based on number of passengers, license plate, vehicle types and permissions.
- Ensure maps are up-to-date by managing permanent and periodical restrictions.
- Segment Restriction cheatsheet PDF
Ready to start?
- Log in to the training platform
- Enroll in the “Segment Restrictions” course
- Review the modules, complete the assessments, and get your badge!
Happy editing!
Shira, on behalf of the Waze Communities team
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Hey @shirapashu ! I recommend this course be revised, there are currently risks with using allowed vehicle types in segment restrictions
Especially in this Practice Time section:
I recently worked on fixing bad routing for EVs across NYC (even on the Manhattan Br that is mentioned here 
)
The issue is that if you only allow Private vehicles in the segment restriction, but the app user selects EV as their vehicle type, they will be excluded from being allowed to route onto it
This was only discovered after URs started to show more information in them (like vehicle type) where we noticed EVs were blocked from some old restrictions added by staff in 2020, and when EV features were rolled out, there was an oversight that these old restrictions would cause issues
In the editor it clearly states “Other vehicle types are prohibited” when using the Driving is Allowed for option, so if Private is selected, but not EV, EV drivers will not get the route even if allowed outside of Waze
Please review these points so that new and experienced editors are aware of this and do not get misled by this training and cause routing issues!
Here is another NYC example just fixed this week, you can see a cluster of URs nearby all with EV vehicle type set that were given poor navigation because there was a (now fixed) segment restriction with Private as allowed vehicle type but not EV
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Thank you very much for your feedback @pasciakd
We have made a few changes accordantly:
Let me know if there any more suggetsions.
Thanks!
Shira
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Thank you for looking into this! Could wording in that last line be changed to
Note that if private vehicles are allowed, electric vehicles should also be added to the allowed list
To my eyes, it currently looks like it says: if you add private, electric vehicles would get routed too - that may be my bias from fixing existing restrictions though, I’ll see what other editors think
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