Spatial - Multi-Ring Trade Areas

Question

Hi All,

I'm recently still learning Spatial and am getting some datasets for practices.

Let's say I have a central point, which has multi-ring trade areas of 2, 4, and 10 miles. How can I differentiate each segment of trade 'ring'? e.g. If I want to look at each ring separately?

For example, a restaurant trying to figure out the best delivery range (2-4, 4-10, or 0-2) depending on how many customers within each ring of trade areas?

Thank you very much for your help!

Qiu · Answer

@penguinocto 
Another thinking is not to use Trade Area.

Append the restaurant to the customer locations, then calculate every combination distance, then filter by range (2-4, 4-10, or 0-2).

penguinocto · Answer

Thank you for your reply!

I somehow found a solution which is to use a filter tool to brute force separate each ring.. so my workflow looks like this:

The trade area tool has three rings, and I used three filters to separate each ring and spatial match on each one. Somehow it has duplicates so I used unique to pick out the unique location. But this doesn't look elegant at all... Any suggestions?

echuong1 · Answer

Each trade area will actually have a separate line for each. From there, you could do a spatial match on customers.

In the example attached, I used 1 store location and created both rings. It resulted in 2 rows of data, one for each ring.

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