Key Features

The Power to Solve Your Network Analysis Problems

The ArcView Network Analyst extension enables you to solve a variety of problems based on geographic networks (e.g., streets, highways, rivers, pipelines, and utility lines). Solve problems such as finding the most efficient travel route across town, generating travel directions, finding the closest emergency vehicle or service facility to an incident, or defining service areas or sales territories based on travel time.

Find the Best Routes

Improve the efficiency of your operations by finding the best routes around town or across the country. Delivery locations can be added by interactively pointing at locations, using mapped locations, or even geocoding an address or street intersection on the fly. The ArcView Network Analyst can even reorder your deliveries, optimizing their order as needed.

You can find the best routes based on the shortest distance or time between where you are and where you want to go. You can even find the best routes during rush hour and at midnight by changing what "cost" the network should use to route. Cost refers to how "expensive" it is typically in terms of time or distance, to travel from one point to another.

You need clear directions to solve your problems. The ArcView Network Analyst allows you to generate detailed directions along your route, providing as-you-need-it solutions for common problems.

Locate the Closest Facilities

Eliminate guesswork and locate the closest available resource at a moment's notice. Dispatch the closest vehicle to a location or find the nearest valve in critical situations. Weigh your decisions based on the information that matters most: cost, time, and/or distance.

Locate the closest facility(s) by time or distance. You can even have the Network Analyst report the closest five facilities within a 10-minute drive. The Network Analyst will also avoid construction and other obstacles as needed, providing the best solution for you.

Build Service Areas

Find what areas and who you service based on your location. Create a service area around your facility defined by distance or time. Plan for the future by examining where the "holes" are in existing services. Analyze customer profiles by overlaying planned service areas and census information, showing the areas of potential growth. Build travel areas that can be served by your facilities (e.g., in five, 10, or 15 minutes).

Give Clear Directions

The ArcView Network Analyst includes the ability to create clear directions, customized to suit your needs. You can also specify what data to use when generating directions and what distance units should be used in the directions.

An important feature of the ArcView Network Analyst is the ability to use additional landmark points within your directions. The directions will include these additional data features, resulting in clearer, easier to understand information (e.g. , ". . . go 1 mile past Jefferson School on your left . . .").

Answer Your Questions Based on Different Criteria

The ArcView Network Analyst can use any cost field for its calculations. This means you can solve your questions based on drive time, street length, traffic conditions, or any of a number of criteria. This allows you to move beyond simple, distance-based routing to make use of the additional information available today.

Use Your Data to Answer Your Questions

The ArcView Network Analyst works with all linear data types supported by ArcView. This means you can transparently create routes across your CAD data, shapefiles, or ArcInfo coverages.

Build Custom Solutions

The ArcView Network Analyst adds additional functionality to ArcView and Avenue (ArcView software's robust, object-oriented scripting environment). You can build complete, customized solutions from simple tools to complete applications using the power of Avenue and the ArcView Network Analyst.