An update for Nokia Drive is now available for Lumia devices running Windows Phone 7.5. The new version, 3.1.0.3206, adds the same routing options feature that is found in Nokia Drive+ Beta on Windows Phone 8. The routing options let you specify whether to use motorways, toll roads, ferries, tunnels, unpaved roads, and motorail trains when calculating a route. There's are also generic route optimisation setting, which allows you to specify whether Nokia Drive should calculate the fastest, shortest, or most economical route. 

Routing options can be set after the initial route has been calculated (i.e. when starting navigation mode). A strip runs along the middle of the screen indicating the current routing preferences. Tapping on this bar opens a page where these preferences, and the route optimisation setting, can be changed.

With each update Nokia Drive on Windows Phone is getting closer to its feature-rich and mature sister version on Symbian. These route optimisation settings were one of the more notable omissions. They are most useful to regular drivers, or "power" sat-nav users, but they're also useful for the more occasional users. Some people prefer not to use motorways and toll roads, and others may want to avoid lengthy waiting times for ferries.

The screenshot below offers an illustration of the way the routing can be changed by these settings. On a drive from Sussex to Cambridge the standard route is to go around the M25 (motorway), across the Dartford crossing (toll bridge). However, Nokia Drive will offer an alternative route through central London, if motorways and toll roads are excluded. Not surprisingly this will take significantly more time to complete.

The updated version of Nokia Drive can be downloaded from the Nokia collection in the Windows Phone Store. If you already have the app installed you will be automatically notified about the update via the Downloads section of the Store app.