Network analysis: creating Network database, Creating
Exercise 9
a multimodal network dataset
Network Analysis:
Network Analyst can find the best way to get from one location to another or to visit several
locations. The locations can be specified interactively by placing points on the screen, entering
an address, or using points in an existing feature class or feature layer. If you have more than
two stops to visit, the best route can be determined for the order of locations as specified by
the user. Alternatively, Network Analyst can determine the best sequence to visit the locations,
which is known as solving the traveling salesman problem
Objectives:
✓ Creation of Network database
✓ Analysis of shortest route
✓ Closest facility mapping
✓ Origin Destination Cost Matrix
Steps Involved:
1. Create a new feature dataset within the personal geodatabase.
2. Give the feature name and output coordinate system of you ROI.
Now you can import your existing shapefiles to this database or create your own shapefiles.
When the shapefiles are being imported, it automatically converts to the output coordinate
system of the geodatabase.
3. Import all the necessary files (Roads, Pune Boundary)
4. Go to the Analysis and select Network Analysis and then select route option. This tool will
allow you to predict the shortest route possible between the points.
5. Once you select the route option, a new network layer is created. Now we must insert the
files into the import stops option.
6. Add the point files into the given options. Set the search tolerance to 5000 mts and select
ok.
7. Now your location attributes have been added to the network layer. The numbers 1 to 4
are displayed in the order they have created. So when trying to get the shortest route. The
rout starts at 1 and ends at 4 and the results will be produced for the shortest route.
8. From the image given below, select the options as suited and run the model.
9. The final result shows the optimized shortest route possible between the points.
10. You can select the show direction option to reveal the directions the route takes from
starting point to end point.
11. Now let’s try the route with some barriers. Import or create a simple polygon anywhere
along the route.
For creating barriers, the features are already present as templates i.e. Route: Point
Barriers, Route: Line Barriers, Route: Polygon Barriers .
12. Now select the network layer and select duplicate.
13. Now we are going mimic the scenario with some problem along the way. Perform the same
option import stops and then select polygon barriers option and select the barrier you just
added and then select ok. Finally run the new scenario.
14. The route gets optimized accordingly based on the barrier and the new route gets updated.
This is the same thing Google maps does and they do it simultaneously with near real time
information.
15. Next we are going to perform the closest facility assessment. Navigate to the network
analysis tool and select the closest facility option.
16. In the closest facility option, we need to give to inputs like facilities and Incidents. For
exg: assume there was an accident in a nearby area and u want to reach the nearest hospital.
Your accident will be (incident) and hospital will be (facility).
17. Now you can see both the accident and hospital information has been added to the network
layer. Now select the run model to get the location of the closest hospital.
18. The output result shows the optimized nearest route of hospital with respect to the location
of the accident.
19. Next we will explore the OD Cost Matrix tool using another dataset. Add [Link] >
Transportation > ParisMultimodal_ND and add Warehouses and Stores layers from
[Link] > Analysis.
This tool will help us analyse the distance and time cost for travelling for each pair of Origin
and destination from multiple origins and desinations. Here we can find the route for
delivering goods between each individual pair of warehouses and stores within a specific
time frame (in this example 10 minutes)
20. Navigate to the network analysis tool and select the Origin-Destination Cost Matrix.
21. In the Contents pane, select OD Cost Matrix for the Layer tab to be activated
22. Import Origins and Destinations – Warehouse layer for Origins (Field Name – “Name”)
and Stores Layer for Destination (Field Name – “NOM”)
23. Open Travel Settings and set the parameters.
a. Mode: Driving Time
b. Cutoff: 10 (Cutoff set for the cost attribute in the appropriate units.)
c. Output Geometry
Click on expand button for Launch Travel Mode Properties
a. Restrictions: DrivingAVehicle and Oneway options are checked.
b. U-Turns: All
24. Click OK and run the analysis. We can see that the analysis is partial as warehouse number
2 has no store within 10 minutes driving distance for the delivery. If we increase the cutoff
time to say 15 minutes, we can obtain complete analysis for all origins (warehouses).
25. By opening the attribute table of the Lines we can see that many warehouse can have
multiple stores within 15 minutes delivery distance.
We can limit the number of destinations for the origins using Destination tab.
Also there can be no store that will be within the driving distance of any warehouse.