Conduct Location Allocation for multiple locations at same time

[ditthu]

Hello Everyone, I am conducting an location allocation for a given set of coords that have the State, County, City details attached to it. I am trying to find an optimal location for a centralized facility for these points that reduces the travel distance at county level in the USA. Is there any way to do this analysis for the entire US for multiple counties at a single time?

Thanks.

[JaySandhu]

You can use ArcGIS Pro connected with ArcGIS Online to solve the Location-Allocation with the included nationwide network dataset. The candidate facilities can be anywhere (different counties) and it will solve for the optimal set of facilities subject to the constraints you put in.

For more information: Location-allocation analysis layer—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

Jay Sandhu

[ditthu]

Thanks for the reply. 

The problem I have is I know the demand points but I don't know the candidate locations. I have created a grid using fishnet but I have never seen any constraints that you can incorporate while conducting the analysis. Maybe I might be inexperienced or I might be looking in the wrong direction. Looking forward for your reply on this.

Thanks

[JaySandhu]

Candidate Locations.

Well, you have to come up with criteria that makes a location a candidate for your type of work. For example, if we are locating a warehouse, perhaps start with a list of available warehouses that can be rented or bought.

What criteria can you define to come up with your ideal candidates?

If you have no criteria then you can simply place random points over your study area and use them. But I doubt that will lead to a useable result in the real world.

Jay Sandhu