How Can I Use ArcGIS 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.

School Districts

• Generate school bus routes honoring curb approach and no U-turn rules.

Logistics

• Assign breaks and max 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.

Government

• Optimize routes for city and county inspectors.

Insurance

• Save insurance appraiser routes while honoring time windows and network barriers, especially in emergency and declared disaster areas.

Health Care

• Create routes for home nurses, honoring time window commitments.

Public Safety

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

Public Works

• Determine the optimal route for point-to-point pickups of bulky trash 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.