Get a two-wheeled vehicle route

Two-wheeled refers to two-wheeled motorized vehicles (for example, motorcycles). The two-wheeler travel mode differs from the bicycle travel mode, which is a human-powered travel mode.

Caution: Requests using a travel mode of TWO_WHEELER are billed at a higher rate. Learn more about billing for Routes API.

Use the travelMode property of a request to specify the mode. The possible values of this property are defined by enumerations in RouteTravelMode (REST) and RouteTravelMode (gRPC).

Note: Walking, bicycling, and two-wheel routes are in beta and might sometimes be missing clear sidewalks, pedestrian paths, or bicycling paths. You must display this warning to the user for all walking, bicycling, and two-wheel routes that you display in your app.

Specify the two-wheeler travel mode

When you call a Routes API, you specify the RouteTravelMode enumeration value to specify the travel mode.

The following example shows how to set the travel mode to TWO_WHEELER in a computeRoutes method (REST) request body. You can also specify this option to the ComputeRoutes method (gRPC).

In this example, you compute the directions between two locations in India specified by Plus codes:

{
  "origin":{
    "address": "H8MW+WP Kolkata India"
  },
  "destination":{
    "address": "GCG2+3M Kolkata India"
  },
  "travelMode":"TWO_WHEELER"
}

Note: For details on supported routes for 2-wheeled vehicles, see Countries and regions supported for two-wheeled vehicles.