Transportation regions

Multi-stop estimation makes use of transportation regions. These are polygonal areas defined by enclosing customers. Create one or more regions in the Transportation Regions table, then assign customers to regions by populating the Transportation Region column in the Customers table. If you do not assign customers to a specific Transportation Region, the "Default Region" is used for those customers when performing multi-stop estimation.

The area of the region is calculated as follows:

• Find the centroid of the customer locations that are included in the region.
• A shape is calculated that represents the area.

You can override the area of a region using the Area Override field in the Transportation Regions table. Area overrides are applied only if you select the “Use Transport Region Override Area” option in Multi-stop estimation options.

You can also override the percentage of drop outliers that are eliminated when calculating the region's area as described in Transportation region outliers.