SELF-STUDY EXERCISE
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Part 1
Drunkin Donuts (DD) specializes in daily home delivery of gourmet donuts. DD has 2 facilities in the SLC area. As a GIS analyst, you have been asked to assist DD in analyzing their home delivery efficiency.
Both facilities serve different customer groups. First, analyze the current best order in which the customers of each facility should be visited from their chosen supply facility. Find the total time and total length traveled.
The customers ideally should have chosen the facility nearest them. However, this appears not to be the case. Check to see if any customer can be reached in less time from a different facility than the one that serves him/her today. If so, reassign these customers and create 2 new customer groups, one for each facility. Determine the best order in which each customer should be served now. Compare the total time and total length traveled with the previous result.
Part 2
As a GIS analyst you have been asked to prepare the best route for the school bus to pick up a number of children. The only data you have is a line theme, not prepared for network analysis and a list of addresses for the children, plus the school and the bus depot.
Prepare the network and find the best ordered route, compare total length and total time for the chosen route. The bus starts from the depot and returns to the depot after the trip. The bus driver needs directions.
Unfortunately for your route, there is some major construction in your area: 5200W is now one-way only, Northbound, from 4100S to 3500S. 4400W is closed from 3100S to 3500S. Edit the attribute table to correspond with this. Include the necessary field names and values from the attribute table in your report. At the intersection of 4700S and 2700W, Southbound traffic cannot turn East onto 4700S from 2700W. Also, at the intersection of 3500S and 4800W, Northbound traffic cannot continue straight on 4800W or make a left turn West onto 3500S, but must make a right turn East onto 3500S. Make a turntable that reflects this. Re-run the previous analysis and compare the results.
