Adding routes and areas

Route

Route Analysis calculates statistics for a defined route between its start point and a destination, optionally with via points.

Click Add new route to start drawing or Add from template if you previously saved one:

Route creation section showing Add new route button and Add from template button for loading previously saved routes — Add new route

Follow these steps to add a route:

1. Provide a name

2. Select the Start and the Finish points.

You can select these points on the map, or type them into the Start and Finish fields.

Route creation form with text input field labeled Start showing address being typed

Interactive map view with route start point marker placed on street with address displayed above map

IMPORTANT! If you would like to add a via point, first you must select your start and finish points. You can also use via points to adjust your route geometry to it's proper location.

Maximum Route Length: 200 kilometers

3. Select the vehicle type: All, Passenger, or Fleet.

Passenger: GPS location data from non-professional regular drivers.
Fleet: GPS location data from professional fleet vehicles, including trucks of different sizes and weights, urban delivery vehicles, and leasing passenger cars. No vehicle type distinction is made within the Fleet data category.

4. Select the map version.

Using different map versions is only advised in advanced use cases when you know about previous road geometry changes (before construction works and after it) and you want to perform a detailed analysis of how much data has changed because of that road event. Otherwise, it's always advised to use the map version recommended by the tool.

Completed route creation form showing route name input, start and finish addresses filled in, vehicle type dropdown set to All, map version dropdown, and map displaying full route path with start, via, and end point markers connected by blue line

You can read more about map versions in this section:

Map Versions

5. To finish adding a route to your analysis - click Add to report.

Maximum Number of Routes: 20

Area - Full

Click Add new area to start drawing a polygon or Add from template if you previously saved one:

Area creation section showing Add new area button and Add from template button for loading previously saved areas — **Add new area** Window

Follow these steps to add an area:

Area creation form showing area name input field, Draw polygon button, Upload GeoJSON button, FRC checkboxes for road classes 0 through 7, vehicle type selection, and timezone button — **Create New Area** window

1. Provide a name.

2. Click Draw polygon or Upload GeoJSON

Drawing a Polygon: define an area by placing dots on the map and right-clicking to complete the polygon
Upload GeoJSON: upload a GeoJSON file from your device. It is possible to upload the GeoJSON file with multiple polygons (Take note that the polygons in a multi polygon may not overlap, and may only touch at single points).

The maximum area size is 20,000 km².

Map view showing polygon being drawn with multiple vertex points connected by lines forming rectangular shape boundary over city area, with polygon area measurement displayed — Drawing a Polygon

3. Define which FRCs (Functional Road Classes) to include in the query.

FRC is a hierarchical designation of the entire road network, ranging from Highways (FRC 0) to local city roads (FRC 7).

You will notice when selecting and deselecting FRC's, a grey line will appear on that road class when selected and disappear when deselected.

Please see the table below with the explanation of each FRC:

Table showing Functional Road Class descriptions from FRC 0 (Major roads of highest importance) through FRC 7 (Other roads less important than FRC 6) — Functional Road Class (FRC) Chart

4. Select the vehicle type.

Passenger: GPS location data from non-professional regular drivers.
Fleet: GPS location data from professional fleet vehicles, including trucks of different sizes and weights, urban delivery vehicles, and leasing passenger cars. No vehicle type distinction is made within the Fleet data category.

5. Select the map version.

You can read more about map versions in this section:

Map Versions

6. Click Add to report.

Area - Traffic Density

The main difference between the Full Area Analysis and Traffic Density Analysis is that instead of the full report information (speed, travel time, and other average values) you will receive only the vehicle number observed for every segment.

Side-by-side comparison of two data output tables: left showing Full Area Analysis with columns for speed, travel time, and sample size; right showing Traffic Density Analysis with only sample size column — Difference between Full Area Analysis (left) and Traffic Density Analysis (right)