ArcGIS Network Analyst
Strictly by pre-registration only
What is this course about?
ArcGIS Network Analyst provides network-based spatial analysis tools for solving complex routing problems. Attendees will learn how to configure a transportation network dataset, allowing organisations to accurately represent their unique network requirements.
This course is for: ArcGIS users who want to plan routes for an entire fleet, calculate drive-times, locate facilities and solve other network-related problems.
Course details
Location
Singapore
Duration
2 days
Level
Advanced
Category
ArcGIS Pro Workflows
Are there any prerequisites?
Completion of ArcGIS 1: Introduction to GIS and ArcGIS 2: Essential Workflows or equivalent knowledge is required.
What skills will I learn?
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Reduce your mileage to decrease fuel cost and save time by driving less
- Give more accurate service time window estimates and miss fewer appointments
- You will be able to define order, driver, vehicle, and other constraints and requirements critical to how the organisation functions
What can I expect?
- Course topics
Fundamentals of network systems
- What is a network?
- Types of network systems
- Components of a network: Physical & Logical
- General geometry of networks
- Understanding turns in a network system
- Networks in ArcGIS
- Geometric networks vs network datasets
Network Analyst basics and the Route solver
- Network analysis workflow, toolbar & window
- Network layer & network analysis layer
- Properties of network analysis layers
- Network locations
- Analysis properties of network analysis layers
- Network layer vs network analysis layer
- Route solver & options
- Directions
Additional network solver
- Closest Facility solver & options
- Service Area solver
- Service Area polygon & line options
- Origin-Destination (OD) Cost Matrix solver
- OD Cost Matrix solver results
- Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) solver
Advanced network analysis options
- Network locations in the network
- Location fields of network locations
- Analysis properties of network locations
- Advanced network solver options
- Incorporating time
- Using time windows
- Route solver results with time windows
- Curb approach
- Setting a curb approach & options
- Hierarchy
- Reasons to use hierarchy
- Exact route vs hierarchical route
- Hierarchy requirements
- Using hierarchy and with ranges
Preparing data for network analysis
- Workflow for using Network Analyst
- Source data for network datasets
- Source data's level of quality
- Examples of data quality
- Verifying coincident geometry
- Creating coincident geometry: Integrate tool
- Common attribute fields for street data
- Migrating existing Esri network data
- Turn Table To Turn Feature Class tool
Network dataset connectivity
- Network dataset, properties & connectivity
- Modelling network dataset connectivity
- Connectivity groups and policies
- Multiple connectivity groups
- Coincident geometry for line features and point features
- Overview of connectivity policies
- Line feature connectivity
- Edge connectivity policies
- Common line feature connectivity errors
- Point feature connectivity
- Junction connectivity policies
- Common point feature connectivity error
- Summary of connectivity policies
- Methods of network dataset connectivity
- Elevation fields
- Intersection scenario
- Overpass/underpass scenario
Network attributes
- Network dataset attributes & properties
- Four types of network attributes
- Cost attributes
- Restriction attributes
- Hierarchy attributes
- Descriptor attributes
- Assigning network attributes
- Attributes and edge directionality
- Evaluators
- Parameterised attributes
- Using network attributes
Creating and building network datasets
- Constructing a network dataset
- Select network sources
- Set network connectivity
- Set turns in the network dataset
- Turn features
- Global turns
- Modeling penalties for global turns
- Set network attributes
- Set properties for directions
- Building a network dataset
- Network building process
- Types of network datasets
Modifying network datasets
- Editing network sources
- Modifying turn feature classes
- Turn Feature Class toolset
- Editing network dataset properties
- Rebuilding the network dataset
- Multimodal network systems
- Multimodal networks in the real world
- Modeling a multimodal network
- Connectivity in a multimodal network
- Multimodal network analysis
Network Analyst and geoprocessing
- Learning objectives
- Review of ArcGIS geoprocessing framework
- Network Analyst Tools toolbox
- Analysis toolset functionality
- Review of ModelBuilder concepts
- Network solvers in ModelBuilder