If I'm really critical I'd say probably that the Caliper brand name appears on the bottom of the maps I produce (very small), and I'd like to keep secret how I am able to do what I do. I've compared Maptitude to many other solutions and can honestly say there is no major dislike that I have. I've been using Maptitude for more than 13 years and bar TransCad (Caliper Corporations Public Transit Modelling Solution), there is no other GIS software that delivers like this! The software is a GIS that can import, covert and export Google Earth, OpenStreetMap, Esri Shape, MapInfo, GPS, AutoCAD, Excel, Text etc. Whenever I need to analyse my data and represent it visually I always go to Maptitude.
#Location allocation transcad drivers#
This helped my drivers to know where they can have a biological break if they need to during their journey.
One of the interesting case studies I did not long ago was to map all the bus stops we serve and also all public toilets that are within walking distance to the bus stops. I create heatmaps that shows public transit safety aspects such as accident hot spots, driver abuse from customers etc. I create selection sets to apply my analysis on only the set of data I'm interested at that moment. I use it to extract and analyse demographics for an area I will be serving to understand the makeup of my customers. This has helped to reduce my dead kilometre cost but also has the added benefit of being able to provide drivers with instructions in the form of left and rights and maps. I use Maptitude to conduct drive time analysis and calculate the optimal sequence of serving key locations. Maptitude's ability to use my data for analysis and visualisation it is phenomenal.