{"id":256172,"date":"2018-06-28T17:22:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T17:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=256172"},"modified":"2018-08-06T19:11:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T02:11:36","slug":"ba-pro-22-suitability-analysis","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/bus-analyst\/analytics\/ba-pro-22-suitability-analysis","title":{"rendered":"New Site Suitability Analysis Workflow and Tools in Business Analyst for ArcGIS Pro 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Filter, Score, and Rank Sites<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Site Suitability Analysis is a modeling workflow that will enable you to interactively filter, score, and rank candidate sites or areas based on multiple selection criteria.<\/p>\n<h2>An Example Workflow (Commercial Site Selection)<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Use Case: Site Selection for a Specialized B2B Car Rental Company\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I thought it would be best to begin with a real-world use case where I put on the hat of a business development manager looking to expand into a new market.<\/p>\n<p><em>I am a regional business development manager at a specialty car rental company that focuses on renting to customers who are getting their cars serviced at major automobile dealerships.\u00a0 We are a relatively small car rental company with community and neighborhood locations only.\u00a0 With our competitive pricing, our dealer partners can offer all their auto service customers complimentary \u201cloaner cars\u201d without the expense of maintaining and administering a rental car fleet of their own.\u00a0\u00a0We primarily consider\u00a0ourselves\u00a0to be a B2B service business with a turnkey offering for our auto dealer customers\/partners.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We\u2019re currently looking to expand into the crowded but potentially lucrative Chicago market.\u00a0 Here\u2019s my criteria: <\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>Lease a space at one of the affordable community shopping center locations that our commercial real estate broker has identified for us [<strong>map layer of shopping centers<\/strong>]<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Locate close to as many automobile dealers as possible\u00a0within a 10-minute drive time service area.\u00a0 The dealers represent partnership opportunities and we want to make sure we limit the amount of time it will take to pick up and drop off any future renters. [<strong>map layer of auto dealers<\/strong>]<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Minimize the number of competing car rental companies in our service area [<strong>map layer of car rental companies<\/strong>]<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Look for service areas where there is high spending on automobile maintenance [<strong>Esri data acquired through the workflow<\/strong>]<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Look for service areas with a lot of nearby households\u00a0<\/em><em>[<strong>Esri data acquired through the workflow<\/strong>]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>The following screen captures go over the workflow in detail:<\/em><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","content":"<p>1. This is a map of our potential sites for our Chicago office (16 available neighborhood shopping center locations); the competition (190 other car rental companies); and our potential customers (265 major auto dealers with service centers).<\/p>\n","image_reference":{"ID":256222,"id":256222,"title":"Example map layers for Site Suitability Analysis","filename":"BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_1_TH_27JUN2018.png","filesize":384417,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_1_TH_27JUN2018.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/bus-analyst\/analytics\/ba-pro-22-suitability-analysis\/bapro2_2_sitesuitability_dark_walkthrough_1_th_27jun2018","alt":"","author":"4231","description":"","caption":"","name":"bapro2_2_sitesuitability_dark_walkthrough_1_th_27jun2018","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":256172,"date":"2018-06-28 15:50:49","modified":"2018-06-28 15:59:27","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1080,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_1_TH_27JUN2018.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":120,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_1_TH_27JUN2018.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_1_TH_27JUN2018.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":432,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_1_TH_27JUN2018.png","large-width":1920,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_1_TH_27JUN2018.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":864,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_1_TH_27JUN2018.png","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1080,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_1_TH_27JUN2018.png","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_1_TH_27JUN2018.png","wide_image-width":1920,"wide_image-height":1080}},"layout":"image","image_reference_figure":"Fig. 1","snippet":"","spotlight_name":"","section_title":"","position":"Center","spotlight_image":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>Depending on your goals and objectives, the individual areas described by your map layer could represent many things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Possible sites for new retail stores or offices<\/li>\n<li>Potential locations for a service or distribution center<\/li>\n<li>A set of parcels that you are evaluating for new commercial or residential real estate development<\/li>\n<li>Sites being considered as election polling places<\/li>\n<li>Candidate sites for pop-up businesses, promotions, and events<\/li>\n<li>Optimal spots for community outreach and services<\/li>\n<li><em>and much more<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","content":"<p>2. We used the Generate Service Areas tool to create 10-minute drive times around each of our 16 potential sites for our office. This provided us with our service areas for our analysis.<\/p>\n","image_reference":{"ID":256252,"id":256252,"title":"Drive time service areas used as the Suitability Analysis Layer","filename":"BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_2_TH_27JUN2018.png","filesize":1629685,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_2_TH_27JUN2018.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/bus-analyst\/analytics\/ba-pro-22-suitability-analysis\/bapro2_2_sitesuitability_dark_walkthrough_2_th_27jun2018","alt":"","author":"4231","description":"","caption":"","name":"bapro2_2_sitesuitability_dark_walkthrough_2_th_27jun2018","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":256172,"date":"2018-06-28 15:56:04","modified":"2018-06-28 15:59:04","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1080,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_2_TH_27JUN2018.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":120,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_2_TH_27JUN2018.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_2_TH_27JUN2018.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":432,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_2_TH_27JUN2018.png","large-width":1920,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_2_TH_27JUN2018.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":864,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_2_TH_27JUN2018.png","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1080,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_2_TH_27JUN2018.png","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_2_TH_27JUN2018.png","wide_image-width":1920,"wide_image-height":1080}},"layout":"image","image_reference_figure":"Fig. 2","snippet":"","spotlight_name":"","section_title":"","position":"Center","spotlight_image":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>If you don\u2019t already have a polygon-based map layer to work with, you can leverage other tools in ArcGIS Pro to create one.\u00a0 For example, if you have a map layer with geocoded address locations representing commercial real estate buildings or shopping centers, you could use the <a href=\"http:\/\/pro.arcgis.com\/en\/pro-app\/tool-reference\/analysis\/buffer.htm\">Buffer Analysis tool<\/a>\u00a0to quickly create ring-based analysis areas around all those sites.\u00a0 (In fact, you can use that tool to digitize map features and save them to a layer directly from its geoprocessing dialog.)\u00a0 Alternatively, you may want to use the <a href=\"http:\/\/pro.arcgis.com\/en\/pro-app\/tool-reference\/ready-to-use\/generate-service-areas.htm\">Generate Service Area tool<\/a>\u00a0to create drive time, drive distance, or walk time-based service areas around those candidate sites.\u00a0 You can even create a standard or hexagon-based grid layer over an entire area with the <a href=\"http:\/\/pro.arcgis.com\/en\/pro-app\/tool-reference\/data-management\/generatetesellation.htm\">Generate Tessellation tool<\/a> and submit that as your Suitability Analysis Layer.\u00a0 The key point here is that you need to consider not just the sites you want to evaluate but also the surrounding areas.\u00a0 Fortunately, ArcGIS Pro gives you a lot of options here.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","content":"<p>3. We then took that 10-minute drive time service area layer and transformed it into a Suitability Analysis Layer with this very simple tool<\/p>\n","image_reference":{"ID":256262,"id":256262,"title":"Make Suitability Analysis GP Tool","filename":"BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_3_TH_27JUN2018.png","filesize":17081,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_3_TH_27JUN2018.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/bus-analyst\/analytics\/ba-pro-22-suitability-analysis\/bapro2_2_sitesuitability_dark_walkthrough_3_th_27jun2018","alt":"","author":"4231","description":"","caption":"","name":"bapro2_2_sitesuitability_dark_walkthrough_3_th_27jun2018","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":256172,"date":"2018-06-28 16:02:40","modified":"2018-06-28 16:03:08","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":602,"height":286,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_3_TH_27JUN2018.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":101,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_3_TH_27JUN2018.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":220,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_3_TH_27JUN2018.png","medium_large-width":602,"medium_large-height":286,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_3_TH_27JUN2018.png","large-width":602,"large-height":286,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_3_TH_27JUN2018.png","1536x1536-width":602,"1536x1536-height":286,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_3_TH_27JUN2018.png","2048x2048-width":602,"2048x2048-height":286,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_3_TH_27JUN2018.png","card_image-width":602,"card_image-height":286,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_3_TH_27JUN2018.png","wide_image-width":602,"wide_image-height":286}},"layout":"image","image_reference_figure":"Fig. 3","snippet":"","spotlight_name":"","section_title":"","position":"Center","spotlight_image":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","content":"<p>4. We added our Point layer of potential customers to the model and set the selection criterion type to \u201ccount\u201d. In a subsequent step, we\u2019re going to configure the model to score our 10-minute service areas higher when there are more potential customers in them.<\/p>\n","image_reference":{"ID":256272,"id":256272,"title":"Setting suitability criteria with Point feature layers (customers)","filename":"BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_4_TH_27JUN2018.png","filesize":384508,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_4_TH_27JUN2018.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/bus-analyst\/analytics\/ba-pro-22-suitability-analysis\/bapro2_2_sitesuitability_dark_walkthrough_4_th_27jun2018","alt":"","author":"4231","description":"","caption":"","name":"bapro2_2_sitesuitability_dark_walkthrough_4_th_27jun2018","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":256172,"date":"2018-06-28 16:04:20","modified":"2018-06-28 16:06:53","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1080,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_4_TH_27JUN2018.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":120,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_4_TH_27JUN2018.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_4_TH_27JUN2018.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":432,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_4_TH_27JUN2018.png","large-width":1920,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_4_TH_27JUN2018.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":864,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_4_TH_27JUN2018.png","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1080,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_4_TH_27JUN2018.png","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_4_TH_27JUN2018.png","wide_image-width":1920,"wide_image-height":1080}},"layout":"image","image_reference_figure":"Fig. 4","snippet":"","spotlight_name":"","section_title":"","position":"Center","spotlight_image":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","content":"<p>5. We essentially did the same as the previous step with our Point layer of competitors. In a subsequent step, we\u2019re going to configure the model to score our 10-minute service areas <strong><em>lower<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0when there are more competitors in them.<\/p>\n","image_reference":{"ID":256282,"id":256282,"title":"Setting suitability criteria with Point feature layers (competitors)","filename":"BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_5_TH_27JUN2018.png","filesize":370049,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_5_TH_27JUN2018.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/bus-analyst\/analytics\/ba-pro-22-suitability-analysis\/bapro2_2_sitesuitability_dark_walkthrough_5_th_27jun2018","alt":"","author":"4231","description":"","caption":"","name":"bapro2_2_sitesuitability_dark_walkthrough_5_th_27jun2018","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":256172,"date":"2018-06-28 16:06:16","modified":"2018-06-28 16:07:10","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1080,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_5_TH_27JUN2018.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":120,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_5_TH_27JUN2018.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_5_TH_27JUN2018.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":432,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_5_TH_27JUN2018.png","large-width":1920,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_5_TH_27JUN2018.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":864,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_5_TH_27JUN2018.png","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1080,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_5_TH_27JUN2018.png","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_5_TH_27JUN2018.png","wide_image-width":1920,"wide_image-height":1080}},"layout":"image","image_reference_figure":"Fig. 5","snippet":"","spotlight_name":"","section_title":"","position":"Center","spotlight_image":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","content":"<p>6. We could have also added spatial proximity (based on straight-line distance or distance or drive time over a road network) as scoring criteria between our candidate sites and our competitors. (We, ultimately, did not leverage this option.)<\/p>\n","image_reference":{"ID":256292,"id":256292,"title":"Setting suitability criteria with Point feature layers  (competitors and a proximity-based relationship)","filename":"BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_6_TH_27JUN2018.png","filesize":29509,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_6_TH_27JUN2018.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/bus-analyst\/analytics\/ba-pro-22-suitability-analysis\/bapro2_2_sitesuitability_dark_walkthrough_6_th_27jun2018","alt":"","author":"4231","description":"","caption":"","name":"bapro2_2_sitesuitability_dark_walkthrough_6_th_27jun2018","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":256172,"date":"2018-06-28 16:08:46","modified":"2018-06-28 16:10:07","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":600,"height":453,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_6_TH_27JUN2018.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":161,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_6_TH_27JUN2018.png","medium-width":346,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_6_TH_27JUN2018.png","medium_large-width":600,"medium_large-height":453,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_6_TH_27JUN2018.png","large-width":600,"large-height":453,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_6_TH_27JUN2018.png","1536x1536-width":600,"1536x1536-height":453,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_6_TH_27JUN2018.png","2048x2048-width":600,"2048x2048-height":453,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_6_TH_27JUN2018.png","card_image-width":600,"card_image-height":453,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_6_TH_27JUN2018.png","wide_image-width":600,"wide_image-height":453}},"layout":"image","image_reference_figure":"Fig. 6","snippet":"","spotlight_name":"","section_title":"","position":"Center","spotlight_image":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","content":"<p>7. Next, we added additional contextual criteria to describe our 10-minute service areas with <a href=\"https:\/\/doc.arcgis.com\/en\/esri-demographics\/reference\/data-browser.htm\">Esri\u2019s <em>global<\/em> business and demographic data<\/a>. In this case, we appended the total number of households and the total amount spent on auto service within each service area.<\/p>\n","image_reference":{"ID":256302,"id":256302,"title":"Adding Esri's demographic and business data as additional suitability criteria","filename":"BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_7_TH_27JUN2018.png","filesize":289924,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_7_TH_27JUN2018.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/bus-analyst\/analytics\/ba-pro-22-suitability-analysis\/bapro2_2_sitesuitability_dark_walkthrough_7_th_27jun2018","alt":"","author":"4231","description":"","caption":"","name":"bapro2_2_sitesuitability_dark_walkthrough_7_th_27jun2018","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":256172,"date":"2018-06-28 16:12:14","modified":"2018-06-28 16:13:07","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1080,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_7_TH_27JUN2018.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":120,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_7_TH_27JUN2018.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_7_TH_27JUN2018.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":432,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_7_TH_27JUN2018.png","large-width":1920,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_7_TH_27JUN2018.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":864,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_7_TH_27JUN2018.png","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1080,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_7_TH_27JUN2018.png","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_7_TH_27JUN2018.png","wide_image-width":1920,"wide_image-height":1080}},"layout":"image","image_reference_figure":"Fig. 7","snippet":"","spotlight_name":"","section_title":"","position":"Center","spotlight_image":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","content":"<p>8. In this step, we used the Suitability ribbon tab to access interactive controls to set how each set of criteria contributes to the final score of each candidate service area (and, by extension, the score and ranking of each available shopping center space for our new office). Note that your criteria can have different weights which will affect how they contribute to the final score.\u00a0 Additionally, your criteria can be classified as \u201cdesirable\u201d with a positive contribution to the calculated score and \u201cundesirable\u201d with a negative (&#8220;Inverse&#8221;) contribution.\u00a0 You can even specify lower and upper numeric limits (\u201cThresholds\u201d) as additional constraints.\u00a0 Candidate sites that fall outside of the constraints are eliminated from consideration by the model.<\/p>\n","image_reference":{"ID":256332,"id":256332,"title":"Interactive adjustment of suitability criteria and constraints with new tools","filename":"BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_8M_TH_27JUN2018.png","filesize":57172,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_8M_TH_27JUN2018.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/bus-analyst\/analytics\/ba-pro-22-suitability-analysis\/bapro2_2_sitesuitability_dark_walkthrough_8m_th_27jun2018","alt":"","author":"4231","description":"","caption":"","name":"bapro2_2_sitesuitability_dark_walkthrough_8m_th_27jun2018","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":256172,"date":"2018-06-28 16:16:15","modified":"2018-06-28 16:17:27","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":998,"height":814,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_8M_TH_27JUN2018.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":174,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_8M_TH_27JUN2018.png","medium-width":320,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_8M_TH_27JUN2018.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":626,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_8M_TH_27JUN2018.png","large-width":998,"large-height":814,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_8M_TH_27JUN2018.png","1536x1536-width":998,"1536x1536-height":814,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_8M_TH_27JUN2018.png","2048x2048-width":998,"2048x2048-height":814,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_8M_TH_27JUN2018.png","card_image-width":570,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_8M_TH_27JUN2018.png","wide_image-width":998,"wide_image-height":814}},"layout":"image","image_reference_figure":"Fig. 8","snippet":"","spotlight_name":"","section_title":"","position":"Center","spotlight_image":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>The Site Suitability Analysis workflow supports many different types of criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Numeric attributes associated with your Suitability Analysis Layer <em>(e.g. number of customers, sales volume, number of employees, real estate cost, tax rates, tax incentives, and more associated with each area)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Attributes that you may append to the Suitability Analysis Layer as part of your workflow<em> (e.g. demographics, business data, consumer behaviors, etc. that you may enrich the layer with)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Proximity to or counts of features in other map layers <em>(e.g. competitors, customers, delivery stops, business improvement districts, special jurisdictions, constituents, patients, complementary businesses, offices, or anything else that you want to consider from a spatial relationship perspective)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","content":"<p>9. And now you can see the final scores and ranked and rendered results <em>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_11_TH_27JUN2018.png\">full size image<\/a>)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Based on our criteria, the office space at the neighborhood shopping center site associated with the 10-min drive time service area with the weighted score of 51.48% represents our current best bet to locate our car rental office.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Note that the service areas shaded in gray failed to satisfy one or more constraints or criteria.<\/p>\n<p>Also, please note that Business Analyst&#8217;s Site Suitability Analysis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Var1_TH_25JUN2018.png\"><em>can scale<\/em>\u00a0and work with many sites and suitability criteria for <em>study areas around the world.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","image_reference":{"ID":256342,"id":256342,"title":"Ranked and scored sites in Suitability Analysis","filename":"BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_11_TH_27JUN2018.png","filesize":357064,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_11_TH_27JUN2018.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/bus-analyst\/analytics\/ba-pro-22-suitability-analysis\/bapro2_2_sitesuitability_dark_walkthrough_11_th_27jun2018","alt":"","author":"4231","description":"","caption":"","name":"bapro2_2_sitesuitability_dark_walkthrough_11_th_27jun2018","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":256172,"date":"2018-06-28 16:19:41","modified":"2018-06-28 16:20:29","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1080,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_11_TH_27JUN2018.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":120,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_11_TH_27JUN2018.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_11_TH_27JUN2018.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":432,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_11_TH_27JUN2018.png","large-width":1920,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_11_TH_27JUN2018.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":864,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_11_TH_27JUN2018.png","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1080,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_11_TH_27JUN2018.png","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BAPro2_2_SiteSuitability_Dark_Walkthrough_11_TH_27JUN2018.png","wide_image-width":1920,"wide_image-height":1080}},"layout":"image","image_reference_figure":"Fig. 9","snippet":"","spotlight_name":"","section_title":"","position":"Center","spotlight_image":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","content":"<p>10. I opened the attribute table and sorted the final score column in descending order. The weighted scoring is shown and updated in the attribute table.\u00a0 Note that I toggled off some of the criteria.\u00a0 It\u2019s also possible to interactively adjust the criteria (e.g. with the slider controls) and see the scoring and ranking automatically update.<\/p>\n","image_reference":{"ID":256352,"id":256352,"title":"Ranked and scored sites with the calcs displayed in the attribute table in Suitability 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10","snippet":"","spotlight_name":"","section_title":"","position":"Center","spotlight_image":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","content":"<p>One of the best features of the Site Suitability Analysis workflow is the ability to interactively make minor adjustments and changes and see the scoring and ranking update immediately.\u00a0 This type of workflow enables you to ask \u201cWhat If\u201d-type questions and helps you quickly arrive at optimal or even alternative solutions that you may not have considered before.<\/p>\n","image_reference":false,"layout":"standard","image_reference_figure":"","snippet":"","spotlight_name":"","section_title":"","position":"Right","spotlight_image":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>And since the Site Suitability Analysis tools are fully integrated with ArcGIS Pro , you can export, publish, and share your solution and the decision support it provides with other members of your organization.\u00a0 You can also continue your site evaluation by taking the \u201cresult\u201d (i.e. your top scoring sites) and submit them as inputs in other analysis tools such as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pro.arcgis.com\/en\/pro-app\/tool-reference\/business-analyst\/create-summary-reports.htm\">Summary Reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, Business Analyst for ArcGIS Pro greatly simplifies and streamlines an advanced site suitability workflow to provide valuable decision support with flexible and intuitive tools, powerful map-based visualization, and support for multiple types of selection criteria.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","content":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><small>Contact Esri Sales or your account manager for information on evaluating or licensing<br \/>\nBusiness Analyst for ArcGIS 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