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I am using ArcMap.

I have a national road network and I would like to divide it in several zones, so each zone would get the same amount of roads (from 150 to 250 km) - to get as equal zones as possible. Then, within each zone, I would like to find the best spot for roads maintenance facility, which would cover roads maintenance based on 1 hour driving distance.

I have tried ArcGIS Aggregate point to divide road network, Location-Allocation and Closest Facility from Network Analyst. The latter two, however, work only if I predefine roads maintenance facility location, which I wouldn't like to do in advance. The facility must be located on a road network. And actually each location on road network represent an alternative for roads maintenance facility.

For sure, both tasks are interconnected - defining zones and defining the best location for maintenance facility, so maybe I haven't been solving it in the right order.

Any ideas?

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Grouping of roads is very complicated task. Optimal solution will take ages to achieve.

I tried the idea explained in this answer to Grouping village points based on distance and population size using ArcMap on a set of roads totaling 368 km in length and attempted to split it into 5 'equal length' parts. Picture shows result:

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As one can see results are reasonable, because length per individual group is not far away from the target of 368km/5 = 74km.

If you'd like to know more about the approach, I suggest to use script and do the exercise at Graph/Network building and analysis of linked polygons in ArcMap.

So here is your idea for first question. Second task is trivial if you'll manage to group roads. I suggest to remove facility related part before you post get closed.

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  • That`s great suggestion @FelixIP. However, I am new to the tools you are mentioning in your answer to Grouping village points based on distance and population size using ArcMap - so - my kind request is - could you describe the procedure in more simple words + which tools you exactly used? Many many thanks! – Lakierski Materialski Sep 23 '21 at 09:54
  • Well, try harder, perhaps read second hyperlinked post. It also has working script. Very little I can do more. You'll also need Python skills, because script won't work with more than 5k nodes. Some minor modification required. Alternative - pay me, which is not cheap. – FelixIP Sep 23 '21 at 19:21