{"id":775565,"date":"2026-10-28T08:40:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T15:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=wherenext&#038;p=775565"},"modified":"2026-10-28T08:42:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T15:42:48","slug":"one-citys-truck-route-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"wherenext","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/publications\/wherenext\/one-citys-truck-route-overhaul","title":{"rendered":"One City\u2019s Transportation Overhaul Raises Questions of How to Get Around"},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[281,278402,7142],"department":[488812],"wherenext-category":[],"industry":[],"class_list":["post-775565","wherenext","type-wherenext","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-location-intelligence","tag-network-analysis","tag-transportation","department-emerging-technologies"],"acf":{"short_description":"When cities redraw truck routes, businesses that rely on location intelligence know where to go next.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"New York City has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/dot\/html\/pr2026\/nyc-dot-complete-mandated-truck-route-redesign.shtml\">redesigned its truck route network<\/a> for the first time since the 1970s, updating a system created long before e-commerce and same-day delivery. When a city adjusts the rules for businesses, planners need location intelligence to remain compliant and keep operations moving at the speed of business."},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Left","content":"<strong>Snapshot<\/strong>: When cities redraw commercial corridors, location intelligence helps companies sort through a dizzying array of factors and keep trucking.","snippet":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"More than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supplychain247.com\/article\/nyc-redesigns-truck-routes-residential-streets\">90 percent of goods<\/a> consumed in New York City arrive by truck, according to the Trucking Association of New York, with commercial vehicles carrying everything from groceries to industrial chemicals to HVAC equipment and the technicians who service it. For around 50 years, the network for commercial freight trucks had not changed much, leading to complaints from both residents and the businesses trying to coexist on crowded city streets.\r\n\r\nThe update is intended to keep trucks and commerce moving while reducing their impact on residential neighborhoods. New York City\u2019s Department of Transportation sought to create shorter connections between industrial zones and highways, with 45 percent of the updated network on or leading to existing highways, and 42 percent within industrial business zones. The agency is also supporting alternate last-mile strategies, including cargo bikes, neighborhood delivery microhubs, and the use of waterways to reduce reliance on trucks.\r\n\r\nWhen transportation routes change, businesses must change with them. That starts with an <a href=\"https:\/\/data.cityofnewyork.us\/Transportation\/New-York-City-Truck-Routes-Map-\/wnu3-egq7\">authoritative map<\/a>, and accelerates with an analytics engine that handles complex calculations and ensures a business stays not just compliant but also efficient.\r\n<h3>What Happens When Truck Routes Change?<\/h3>\r\nOptimizing the movement of vehicles through complex transportation networks is a challenge many business leaders confront\u2014from freight forwarders to service businesses to food delivery providers. A redesigned freight network can reduce commercial traffic on one residential street while changing travel times, delivery schedules, and congestion elsewhere. Carriers must account for the new routes and restrictions without compromising customer service.\r\n\r\nWith <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/location-intelligence\/overview\">location intelligence<\/a> generated by geographic information system (GIS) technology, business and transportation planners examine the layout of a network and simulate how a change in one location could affect operations elsewhere."},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Left","content":"<strong>Related Read:<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\/\/ Finding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/arcgis\/products\/arcgis-network-analyst\/features\">the right techniques<\/a> to steer a business","snippet":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"One <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/publications\/wherenext\/healthcare-delivery-optimization\">health services business<\/a> used GIS to plan clinicians\u2019 home visits. During a five-month pilot, the optimized routing and schedules saved clinicians more than 2,000 driving miles and 45 hours behind the wheel, allowing them to devote more time to patient care.\r\n\r\nAs those planners and others have learned, routing is rarely as simple as finding the shortest path between two points. It takes a complex analytics engine to balance schedules, vehicle and worker availability, service requirements, operating costs, and client needs.\r\n<h3>Rerouting Around the Unexpected<\/h3>\r\nThe value of location intelligence becomes especially clear when a supply network is disrupted.\r\n\r\nAt a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/publications\/wherenext\/optimized-routing\">major meat-processing firm<\/a> with operations in North Carolina, a failure at one manufacturing facility threatened as much as 15 percent of the company\u2019s animal feed supply. Using GIS analysis to reroute feed deliveries around the shutdown, the company kept deliveries on schedule.\r\n\r\nOn a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/podcast\/why-every-utility-needs-a-digital-twin\">recent podcast<\/a>, Dan Pimentel, president of ESP Logistics Technology, detailed a project that used location intelligence to help a large 3PL gain up to 20 percent more capacity from its existing fleet and reduce miles driven by 235 million.\r\n\r\nWhen roads, regulations, or operating conditions change, business leaders can adapt quickly and effectively if they understand the intricacies of distribution network. Whether they\u2019re faced with a revamp of city trucking routes or a kink in the supply chain, companies that have mastered location intelligence know where to go next."}],"references":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>As NYC Rearranges Truck Routes, Businesses Turn to Analysis<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Whether a city redraws truck routes or a supply chain hiccup alters the movement of goods, network analysis shows companies their next move.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/publications\/wherenext\/one-citys-truck-route-overhaul\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" 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