Rapidis - High Density Multi Modal Routing Software for ArcGIS
High Density Route Planning is the right choice when you want to visit all addresses in an area. This is often the case for Postal Mail Delivery, Residential Garbage Collection and Total Market Coverage (TMC) with printed advertisement material like folders or leaflets.
Because of the large number of addresses it is not possible to produce an OD cost matrix calculating all-to-all drive time combinations. This is why the high density edition of Rapidis Logistics Planner for ArcGIS works with “address grouping” or “clustering” to make the OD cost matrix calculations possible.
Mail Delivery and TMC often involves walking postmen and carriers. To accommodate for this the Route Planning software automatically produces a sidewalk network allowing walking speed to be set by the planner. Car routes uses a traditional street network.
This extension for ArcGIS has a Postal VRP (Vehicle Routing Problem) tool that divides the area into efficient routes and a Postal TSP (Travelling Salesman Propblem) tool providing the best sequence for one or many individual routes without swapping tasks between routes.
The postal VRP from Rapidis Logistics Planner will handle amounts of addresses much larger from what is possible with the Network Analyst VRP.
This is possible because the Logistics Planner Postal VRP is capable of grouping or clustering the addresses.
By clustering Logistics Planner minimizes the size of the OD Cost Matrix that needs to be calculated in order to find travel time for all possible route combinations.
The sidewalk network is automatically produced by the software. It is used for routes served by walking carriers or carriers using a bicycle.
With the sidewalk network the walking speed is set by planner who also gains a lot of control with the network allowing or disallowing crossings for carrier safety. Sidewalks are Bi-Directional.
Route Planning for Residential Waste Collection will calculate travel time using a digital road network with truck attributes like maximum height and axle pressure.
With ArcGIS for Desktop, Logistics Planner is installed as an extension on users’ desktop machines and supports a traditional GIS professional / Planner workflow.
With ArcGIS for Server, Logistics Planner is used to deploy REST web services to be integrated in existing workflows or to form the basis of new workflows or applications.
Web services can be cloud hosted web services managed by Rapidis or they can be deployed to on premise ArcGIS Servers.