Five of the Best Route Planners

In third place is Waze, an ultra-reliable route planner complete with mobile app.

Waze started life out as a simple traffic jam news and update system, but quickly evolved into one of the go-to tools for route planning after an update which let users choose routes. It's a user-generated system with the large community of Waze users contributing to create an accurate traffic jam update and route planning system. All you need to do is let it know where you're going and it will give you a choice of intelligent routes based on accurate and up to date traffic information.

The Waze app is available for Android on Google Play, on iTunes for Apple devices, and on Windows Phone. The app is just as good as the web interface and it's highly recommended for heavy milers. The only downside to Waze is that it's not the most detailed system and it lacks some of the neat features of our number one entrant. Other than that, it comes highly recommended by us.