To which point does it calculate drive time on a line?

Hi all,

I am trying to figure out to which point Alteryx calculates drive time on a line? Thus, it's calculation from a point to a line, but which spot on the line.
I have exhausted all options in my head and I can't figure out why it choses the drive distance it does. Also, couldn't find this info online. Does anyone have a good idea?

Thank you in advance!

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PanPP

Based on your selection in the workflow, you will get the distance to the destination centroid.

You can create points based on what distance you are trying to calculate, and then choose that as your destination centroid.

Hope this helps.

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PanPP

Hi @Jeafly

Please take a look at the following article: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Discussions/Identify-Coordinates-and-Calculate-Driving-Time-and-Duration/td-p/469084

You can get the drivetime (and the straight line) in the distance tool, This drive time is based on the Tom Tom dataset.

Hope this helps, if it does please like this post. If you have any other questions, please let us know.

Jeafly

Hi @PanPP,

I am using the TomTom Data and distance tool to get the drivetime data. The question is about the data I get back. Which point on the line (that I am calculating the distance to) is chosen? The article doesn't seem to answer that, but thank you.

PanPP

Based on your selection in the workflow, you will get the distance to the destination centroid.

You can create points based on what distance you are trying to calculate, and then choose that as your destination centroid.

Hope this helps.

Jeafly

Thank you for clarifying that. How I missed that one, I don't understand.

Do you by any chance know if there is a way to have it return the shortest drive distance from the line input without splitting it into points? It is a fairly big dataset.

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