MapInfo Drivetime

For all organisations involved in market analysis, site assessment and selection, customer relationship management or logistics planning, Pitney Bowes Software's MapInfo Drivetime provides an essential and proven desktop planning and analysis tool.

Drivetime enables users to accurately create catchment boundaries (isochrones), based on driving time or driving distance. These are vital if, for example, you need to understand how many people live within ten minutes travel time of an existing or proposed new site location – perhaps a retail branch, cash dispenser or health centre.

Compare And Contrast Sites

Drivetime can create single or multiple catchment area boundaries simultaneously, around single or multiple locations, making it easy to compare and contrast existing or new sites. Catchment boundaries are automatically displayed in a map window and may be saved out for future analysis.

Calculate The Shortest And Quickest Route

In addition, a routing feature allows you to accurately calculate the shortest or quickest route, between two or more locations.

Details such as road names, road numbers, times and distances, plus supporting maps can all be viewed and printed with ease. If you have multiple stop-offs to make, MapInfo Drivetime can incorporate them into the route plan and will generate a matrix of travel times and distances from your start point(s) to your destination(s): depots to postcode sectors, branches to distribution centres, customers to stores, postcodes to postcodes.

A Flexible Solution

MapInfo Drivetime offers a robust set of tools to produce, analyse and share accurate, reliable drive time data. Distances and routes, which can be defined in miles or kilometres, are calculated to take full account of speed limits, height, weight, width and other road restrictions. The same analysis can be applied whether you are travelling down a city street, or along a major motorway. You can even switch your analysis from the major roads network to street level and back with just a few clicks of the mouse.

Customisable For Your Requirements

Depending on the Drivetime solution you choose, you can also easily make changes to the road network based on your own requirements. Full editing capabilities, accessed through drop down menus, enable you to incorporate traffic hot spots and road closures, add new roads, restrict the use of certain road classes, change road speeds, and more.

• Set your own speed limits, perhaps for slow vehicles, or to take account of peak travel speeds (Drivetime uses ‘offpeak’ travel speeds).
• Prohibit travel on certain roads, or make changes based on local knowledge, or even daily travel conditions, to optimise performance for your analysis.
• Edit your road network on screen on a temporary basis, save the changes to reload later, or make permanent edits to the network.
• Use the network wizard tool to import and create your own road networks for Drivetime to reference.

For Sophisticated Analysis

MapInfo Drivetime is also easily extended, with a wide range of additional Pitney Bowes Software datasets, to increase the sophistication of your analysis.

By incorporating Census or demographic data, for example, you can analyse not only the number of customers living within a five minute drive of a new store, but also their levels of disposable income, age range and other demographics – invaluable information! A full range of high quality add-on data sets are also available from Pitney Bowes Software.

Key Features Of MapInfo Drivetime

• Superior catchment boundaries – a proven solution, incorporating a sophisticated algorithm, guarantees accurate high quality results every time.
• Broadest range of road networks.
• A flexible solution – allows you to switch easily between networks depending on your needs, enabling you to move from high level analysis to a detailed street-level view at the click of a button.
• Interfaces fully with the MapInfo family of desktop software and data.
• Regular updates ensure you always have access to the latest road networks.
• From a leader in location-based business intelligence solutions & high quality data sets.