A routing service is a service that uses network analysis and streets data to calculate the most effective path and turn-by-turn directions on a street network for a set of stops. Many factors are taken into consideration in calculations such as traffic conditions, specific time of day, and any barriers that might affect drive time and route. The routing service provides a number of other operations, such as finding the maximum driving distance over time, the shortest path to a set of facilities, the "traveling salesman problem" (shortest possible route to visit each location exactly once and return to the origin), and a cost matrix to determine the minimum cost of traveling to destinations. An access token is required to use the service.
There are two types of routing services:
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The ArcGIS Routing service: A location service hosted by Esri for developers who have an ArcGIS Location Platform account or ArcGIS Online account.
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ArcGIS Enterprise routing service: A service you can host in your own infrastructure with ArcGIS Enterprise. The service is available to developers who have an ArcGIS Enterprise account associated with the organization.
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Also known as
- World routing service
- Vehicle Routing service
- Location Allocation service
- Closest Facility service
- Origin Destination Cost Matrix service
Related terms
- route
- location services