Setting route type and route options

You can select the following route types:
• Fast Route: COMAND calculates the route with the shortest (minimized) journey time.
• Dynamic Route: same route type as Fast Route. In addition, COMAND takes traffic reports into account during route guidance6. Thus, the navigation system is able to guide you around a blocked section, for example. If a faster route is determined due to a received RDS-TMC traffic announcement, the navigation system changes the route. If possible, it will bypass blocked roads.
• Eco Route: the ECO route is an economical route that takes traffic announcements into account (see dynamic route).
• Short Route: COMAND calculates the route with the shortest possible (minimized) route distance.

In addition to route types, route options can also be set.

You can select the following route options:
• Use Carpool Lanes
• Minimize highways
• Minimize Toll Roads
• Minimize Tunnels
• Minimize Ferries
• Minimize Motorail Trains

If you select route options with a tick, the corresponding types of roads will be avoided in the route guidance where possible.

To activate navigation mode: press the function button once or twice.
To show the menu: press the COMAND controller.
Select Navi in the main function bar by sliding and turning the COMAND controller and press to confirm.
Select Mode and press to confirm.

1 To select the route type
2 To set route options

Select a route type and press to confirm.
The icon indicates the current setting.
Select the route option(s) and press to confirm.
The route options are switched on or off , depending on the previous status.

If you change the route type and/or the route options while route guidance is active (the route has been calculated), COMAND will calculate a new route.
If you change the route type and/or the route options while route guidance is inactive (no destination has been entered yet), COMAND uses the new setting for the next route guidance.

The route calculated may, for example, include ferry connections, even if the Minimize Ferries route option is switched on.
In some cases, e.g. when calculating particularly long routes, COMAND may not be able to take all the selected route options into account. A note then appears in the COMAND display.

To exit the menu: slide the COMAND controller.