An overview of the Server toolset

The Server toolset contains tools that are designed to perform two types of tasks:

Tool

Description

Find Closest Facilities

Finds one or more facilities closest to an incident based on travel time, distance, or other cost and outputs the best route, chosen facility, and driving directions between the incident and the facility. For example, you can use this tool to find the closest hospital to an accident, the closest police cars to a crime scene, or the closest store to a customer's address.

Generate Service Areas

Creates a service area network analysis layer, sets the analysis properties, and solves the analysis. This tool is ideal for setting up a service area geoprocessing service on the web. A network service area is a region that encompasses all streets that can be accessed within a given distance or travel time from one or more facilities.

Solve Vehicle Routing Problem

Creates a vehicle routing problem (VRP) network analysis layer, sets the analysis properties, and solves the analysis, which is ideal for setting up a VRP web service. A vehicle routing problem analysis layer finds the best routes for a fleet of vehicles.

Update Traffic Data

Downloads live traffic data from a web service and stores it in a dynamic traffic format (DTF) file, which is a file that network datasets can read for live-traffic analysis and display.

Update Traffic Incidents

Creates a point feature class containing live traffic-incident data from a web service. Traffic incidents include events such as accidents and road construction.

Tools in the Server toolset
1/20/2015