Getting to know ArcGIS Network Analyst

This 1 hour 30 mins hands-on session will help you in learning ArcGIS Network Analyst extension and how it can be useful for your research analysis. We will also be going through some of the functions that this extension offers. After this session you will be able to answer the following questions:

• • What is the quickest way to get from point A to point B?

  • Which houses are within five minutes of a fire station?

  • A person wants to visit a store. Which branch should the potential customer visit to minimize travel time?

  • Which firestations can respond quickest to an incident?

In this session you will be going through the following exercises:

Exercise 1: Creating a network dataset

Exercise 2: Calculating travel time from each fire station to census tracts using OD Cost Matrix analysis

Exercise 3: Your department is cutting the budget and want to shut 4 fire stations, how to find which ones are those using Location Allocation?

Attached are the slides, handout and data that will be used in this session.