Drive times, distance matrices and road speeds

Drive times, time and distance matrices, service allocation software and routing and scheduling systems are used by organisations to:

• create catchments around stores, hospitals, depots...
  
  
• calculate delivery charges
  
  
• allocate closest resource to demand
  
  
• identify territory overlaps
  
  
• minimise fuel costs
  
  
• maximise customer facing time for field sales people
  
  
• optimise depot allocations
  
  
• determine achievable service levels
  
  
• identify gaps in service provision

With 20 years experience of digital map data, MapMechanics, is renowned for its expertise in helping organisations select the best road or street data sets for their specific application.

MapMechanics offers 100s of vector mapping data sets (for the UK, Ireland, Europe and World).

To use the data to calculate routes, drive time catchments, journey times and distances, the network must be routable and have speeds attributed to each road.

There is a wide range of speed data available (ranging from simple speeds applied to specific road classes through to individual average speeds on each segment of road derived from GPS signals).

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The options for attributing speeds to road & street data

UK road & street mapping

Europe & World road & street maps

Whether you need to know the time between every depot and every customer, or between every Census output area and every other Census output area within a specified distance, MapMechanics can provide a solution to meet your needs.

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• Time & Distance Matrices

Find the Nearest functionality can stand alone and simply list the names of the nearest 5 stores or competitors. Alternatively, MapMechanics have combined Find the Nearest functionality with matrix generation in the Service Allocator product. Calculating the nearest, next nearest etc., together with the appropriate time and distance information.

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• Service Allocator