How are certain indicators calculated?

Number of sectors

When the number of sectors to generate is not a limiting criterion for the user, Territory Manager can be requested to suggest a number of sectors to generate to obtain a balanced districting. The user needs to define an indicator, the value of which they want to attain by sector, as for example: balance on sector potential, with all sectors having a value of up to 500,000.
Territory Manager will then suggest a number of sectors to create, visible in the functionality, which is different from the number of existing sectors. The sectors suggested will all have values approximating to the maximum target value (they can exceed it by 5%).

Sector names

Following an automated districting, the names of the previous sectors are retained, if 50% of their points have remained within this same sector.

Points with the same coordinates

Points which have the same X,Y coordinates (same address) will have their indicators concatenated. These will be treated as a single and same point attributed to a sector, which could result in imbalances.

Estimated journey time

Estimation of the time spent on the road to visit all points within a sector.
This indicator is only available following an automatic districting using load calculation. The estimation is calculated by assigning a weight to each point (the closer a point is to the others, the less costly it will be to visit, and conversely, a point far from all the others is more costly to visit).
For each point, the journey time is calculated (via the route) to the N nearest points to determine the weighting for each, taking into account the visit frequency if this has been assigned.

Visit time

The visit time corresponds to a visit duration assigned to each point by the user. This is entered as an indicator (duration). Combined with the Journey time indicator, we obtain a balancing on workload. If a client has an estimated visit time of 20 minutes and is visited 5 times, this represents a total journey time of 1 hour and 40 minutes on the global districting. The visit times are multiplied by the rounded frequency: for example 1’29 = 1 minute (rounded down to the lower value). If this visit time is multiplied by a frequency of 5 (for example) we will lose 29 seconds x 5. The impacts are nonetheless quite marginal.

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