Why do our customers choose speed data from MapMechanics?
MVA Consultancy, a leading UK-based consultancy working in the public and private transport arena, uses NAVTEQ mapping and travel data sets supplied by MapMechanics. David Connolly, deputy divisional director for MVA explains why they choose to use data from MapMechanics:
"There is increasing pressure on all sides for us to come up with more precise and detailed transport modeling, yet we also have to deal with cost constraints, and with the need to gather data in the most environmentally-friendly way possible."
David Connolly
MVA
How MapMechanics Smart Routing software improves results
Powerful Smart Routing functionality in GeoXploit GIS mapping analysis products ensure that you can make the most of your investment in data, whether you choose a strategic road network or detailed data with traffic restriction information and specific speeds for each link.
Quickly analyse all locations at once, saving time and ensuring the analysis is consistent
Smart Routing enables you to create drivetime or walk-time catchments around all your sites and those of your competitors or prospective sites in a single operation. Each one will be labeled with the name of the location and the time specified, so you can produce 5, 9 and 15-minute isochrones around every store simultaneously, for example. The software enables you to choose whether to make a single large multi-part catchment around a number of locations or to make individual drive times around each one.
Calculate routes quickly using Smart Routing hierarchical networking
Use hierarchical networking to force Smart Routing to work in the same way as a driver would intuitively use a paper map: once on a main road traveling in the general direction of the destination don't spend time considering every option at every junction, only deviate from the main road when it is no longer traveling in approximately the right direction.
Be clear which areas are and are not within reach
Whether you are creating catchments to predict turnover or calculate delivery costs, it is important that catchments only include areas that can genuinely be reached in the specified time. Perhaps some areas of nearby large housing estates can't be reached, while just off the next motorway junction, isolated pockets of a neighbouring town can be included in your catchment. Choose when to allow holes, how detailed smoothing should be and whether or not to include a buffer.
Take account of one-way streets, low bridges and restricted access for specific vehicle types.
GeoXploit's easy-to-use set-up for routing enables you to specify which navigational constraints to use. Take full advantage of additional information in data sets such as NAVTEQ which provide details of, for example, direction of travel allowed or where connection to a road is forbidden (e.g. you can't join a motorway between junctions).
Choose direction of travel – A to B may not take the same time as B to A
One-way systems and complex junctions mean that it may be quite quick to do a journey, but take considerably longer to make the return trip at the same time of day. So Smart Routing includes the option of creating standard isochrones from a central point or in reverse, measuring the time to and from the specified location.
Intuitive, flexible display for clear communication of results
Use the user-specified buffer settings to smooth your catchments. Set different transparent fills for specific times or types of drive time, or use them to clearly identify overlaps in your service provision. Label automatically and link to calculation fields and thematic mapping to colour according to number of prospects within the catchment, for example.
