Routing and Directions

Find routes, directions, and perform intelligent network analysis

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Find the most efficient routes to your destinations to reduce time and costs. Generate turn-by-turn directions to always stay on course. Manage your fleet of vehicles. Perform intelligent network analysis for efficient route planning to maximize productivity.

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    Find routes

    Find the quickest or shortest routes based on time and/or distance. Solve for two stop locations or create a sequence that puts multiple stops in the best order. Build these routes with live or historical traffic.

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    Generate turn-by-turn directions

    Generate turn-by-turn directions as you travel on a route. Track progress information relative to the next stop or maneuver or along the entire route. Get guidance for navigation as it's needed; for example, when approaching a maneuver. Quickly recalculate routes if the device location goes off route.

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    Find the best location for your business

    Find a location that keeps costs low and accessibility high to maximize profits and ensure high-quality service. The analysis considers facilities that provide goods and services and where those goods and services are consumed.

  • San Francisco street map with multiple roads highlighted in orange

    Find closest facilities

    Measure the cost of traveling between facilities to determine which is the closest. Identify which branch the potential customer should visit to minimize travel time or which ambulance or patrol car can respond fastest to an incident. Specify how many facilities to find and whether the direction of travel is toward or away from the facility.

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    Generate service areas

     A network service area is a region that can be reached from a location within a given travel time or distance. Once service areas are created, you can use them to identify things like what market areas a business covers or which houses are within five minutes of a fire station.

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    Create origin-destination matrices

    The origin-destination cost matrix produces a distance table showing least-cost paths along the network from many origins to many destinations. The cost values reflect the network distance.

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Plan your operations

Optimized routes for the real world

Find the quickest or shortest route with two or more stops. Take into account real-world constraints such as traffic feeds, U-turns, road barriers, incidents, maximum permitted vehicle height, and many more.

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Route multiple vehicles

Given a set of work locations and a fleet of vehicles, determine what stops should be serviced by each route and in what sequence the stops should be visited. Minimize the overall operating cost for the entire fleet while considering real-world constraints.

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