Driving times are an increasingly important factor in many forms of analysis, planning and decision support.   We at Mercator GeoSystems have  many years experience in helping provide accurate and cost effective drive times for your applications.

We offer a number of Drive Time related services :

Drive Time data and mapping

It is often useful to visualise the geographic area within a certain drive time of a location such as a store, service location or other form of outlet.  We can either provide the customised data enabling you to create your own maps or produce a map for you tailored to your needs.

This sample map shows the area within one hours drive of central St Albans with the different colours representing areas within 20, 40 and 60 minutes.  Click on the image to see a larger version of the map. 

To try this service for yourself enter a place name, postcode or postal sector in the box below and lick on 'Go' to get a sample PDF.

These maps can be purchased via our online mapping portal at http://www.drivetimemaps.co.uk.

Pre-Built Drive Time Matrices

Many forms of location analysis require the provision of a "drive time matrix".  These "DTMs" are a table which records drive time (and / or distance) data between a number of locations.   We offer pre-built matrices for the US (Zipcodes or Census Tracts) and UK (Postal Sectors or Postal Districts).

Click here to view the products available or alternatively certain products can be purchased online at our drive time data portal at http://www.drivetimedata.co.uk.

Custom Built Drive Time Matrices

Sometimes an 'Off the Shelf' matrix is not suitable.  This could be for a number of reasons include the requirement for a more detailed road network or the inclusion of specific locations in the matrix.  Our drive time matrix generator enables us to produce custom matrices far faster than previously possible. 

Please contact us if you wish to enquire about our custom service.

Drive Time coding APIs 

We can also provide our Drive Time programming API for use in your own applications.  A demonstration logistics type application built around our Drive Time API can be viewed here.

To test out our capabilities please try our demonstration application which can calculate the drive time for a route with up to 10 legs and produce a printable itinerary. 

Please contact us if you have any questions on these services, or would like to try us out!  We will happily provide a sample file that shows the output of the matrix creation process.