Network Analyst

ArcGIS Network Analyst is an extension to ArcGIS Desktop that helps you conduct network-based spatial analysis. With ArcGIS Network Analyst, you can create applications that build multimodal routes, provide travel directions, look for closest facilities, and create service areas and origin-destination cost matrices.

ArcGIS Network Analyst helps you dynamically model realistic network conditions and solve vehicle routing problems that include turn restrictions, speed limits, height restrictions, and traffic conditions at different times of the day.

With ArcGIS Network Analyst you can conduct

  • Drive-time analysis
  • Point-to-point routing
  • Fleet routing
  • Route directions
  • Service area definition
  • Shortest path analysis
  • Optimum route analysis
  • Closest facility analysis
  • Origin-destination analysis

Routing

  • Multipoint routing
  • Time windows supported on stops
  • Traveling salesperson

Vehicle Routing Problem

  • Time windows
  • Driver breaks and specialties
  • Vehicle capacities and order quantities

Service Areas

  • Complex polygon generation
  • Allocation across networks

Closest Facility

  • Fixed and mobile asset routing
  • Emergency response

Origin Destination Matrix

  • Travel time matrix
  • Maximum destination and distance cutoffs

Driving Directions

  • Expandable inset maps
  • Auto-generation capability

Dynamically Model Realistic Network Conditions

ArcGIS Network Analyst uses an advanced Network Data Model that allows the use of realistic datasets encompassing multiple attributes such as cost, restriction, and hierarchy. You can define various cost attributes, such as distance, time, and visibility, according to their analysis requirements.

Features of the Network Data Model include

  • Complex, multipart turns
  • Dynamic impedance
  • Global weights
  • Exact and hierarchical routing
  • Network barrier support

Multimodal Network Support

Multimodal network support incorporates an advanced connectivity model that can represent complex scenarios such as multimodal transportation networks.

 

How Can I User Network Analyst?

Business 

  • Schedule deliveries and installations while including time window restrictions.
  • Calculate drive time to determine customer base, taking into account rush hour versus midday traffic volumes.
  • Provide service-level agreements to customers based on drive time to the warehouse or facility.
  • Find the closest store based on customer location.
  • Route service calls for technicians.       

Logistics 

  • Assign breaks and maximum drive-time constraints to drivers.
  • Calculate routes for delivery vehicles, honoring trucking restrictions.
  • Match customer needs with driver or vehicle specialties.
  • Account for vehicle capacities.   

Public Safety 

  • Route emergency response crews to incidents.
  • Calculate drive times for first responder planning.

Public Works 

  • Determine the optimal route for point-to-point pickups of bulky waste items or routing of repair crews.

Transportation

  • Calculate accessibility for mass transit systems by using a complex network dataset.

Software Developers 

  • Generate origin-destination matrices for use in other logistics applications.

 

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