https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-network-analyst-questions/how-to-solve-facility-location-and-transportation/m-p/1153610#M7823 <P>You can compute the cost or distance between the candidate warehouse locations and the demand points for each of the travel modes and then come up with a way to combine the results for your purpose. The OD Cost Matrix solver can be used for computing the cost matrix.</P><P>You can use the Location-Allocation solver to solve for optimal locations based on each of the three travel modes and then evaluate the results to see which gives overall minimum solution.</P><P>Jay Sandhu</P> Mon, 14 Mar 2022 23:57:03 GMT JaySandhu 2022-03-14T23:57:03Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-network-analyst-questions/how-to-solve-facility-location-and-transportation/m-p/1153201#M7822 <P>Hi.&nbsp; We are 2 masterstudents, trying to solve a combination of&nbsp;a location problem and a transport problem. We are using the build in network analyst tools in Arcgis Pro.&nbsp; &nbsp;But we have not figured out how to combine this problem.&nbsp; We want to choose the optimal location of a warehouse with minimizing the transport cost to the demand points, by choosing between different transportation types(train, ship and car)&nbsp; Does anyone have any tips for us?</P><P>Thank you in advance!</P> Sun, 13 Mar 2022 13:18:05 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-network-analyst-questions/how-to-solve-facility-location-and-transportation/m-p/1153201#M7822 AnneMarieIndrelid 2022-03-13T13:18:05Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-network-analyst-questions/how-to-solve-facility-location-and-transportation/m-p/1153610#M7823 <P>You can compute the cost or distance between the candidate warehouse locations and the demand points for each of the travel modes and then come up with a way to combine the results for your purpose. The OD Cost Matrix solver can be used for computing the cost matrix.</P><P>You can use the Location-Allocation solver to solve for optimal locations based on each of the three travel modes and then evaluate the results to see which gives overall minimum solution.</P><P>Jay Sandhu</P> Mon, 14 Mar 2022 23:57:03 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-network-analyst-questions/how-to-solve-facility-location-and-transportation/m-p/1153610#M7823 JaySandhu 2022-03-14T23:57:03Z