Introducing TravelTime ArcGIS Pro add-in 3.6

Travel time analysis, location data and site selection in Esri ArcGIS Pro

The TravelTime ArcGIS Pro add-in lets GIS analysts run travel time analysis inside Esri ArcGIS Pro without writing code.

It builds isochrones, travel time matrices, H3 catchments, routes and geocoded point layers by car, public transport, cycling and walking.

Our latest version also now adds a Data toolset that returns demographics, places, open spaces and neighbourhood data for any catchment.

You can use the TravelTime API in ArcGIS Pro for office commute analysis, healthcare catchments, retail site selection, and much more.

Sign up for TravelTime to get your API key and start building today.

What's new in the TravelTime ArcGIS Pro add-in?

The add-in shipped four releases over several weeks this autumn. Each one built on the last, from API coverage to analysis tools to location data.

How do H3 travel time catchments work in ArcGIS Pro?

The H3 tools return a travel time catchment as a grid of H3 hexagons instead of a single polygon. Every reachable cell comes back with the travel time to it, so one layer shows both where you can reach and how long it takes.

• Every mode: driving, walking, cycling and public transport.
• Longer journeys: travel times up to 10 hours, against a 4-hour maximum for isochrones.
• Joins to other data: H3 cells join directly to any other H3-indexed dataset, including the TravelTime Data API.

Read why teams are moving from isochrones to H3 for more on the switch.

What can you analyse with the new H3 tools?

Four new tools build on H3 catchments to compare many locations at once. Each one answers a network question that a single isochrone can't.

Territory Map

Territory Map gives every H3 cell to the location that reaches it fastest. The result is one territory per location with no overlaps, ready for sales regions, delivery zones or service areas.

Cannibalisation

Cannibalisation shows where the travel time catchments of one set of locations overlap another. Use it to test whether a new site would take customers from your existing ones, or to map overlap with a competitor's network.

Reachability Heatmap

Reachability Heatmap counts how many catchments reach each cell and shows which locations minimise travel times. Dense areas show where coverage is strong; thin areas show the gaps.

Doughnut Areas

Doughnut Areas draws configurable travel time rings around a set of locations, such as 0–10, 10–20 and 20–30 minutes. Pair the rings with the Data toolset to see who lives in each band.

Location Allocation with real travel times

Location Allocation is rebuilt on the Travel Time Matrix API. It chooses which candidate sites to open and allocates demand to them, using real journey times instead of road distance or straight lines.

• All seven problem types: it covers the same seven location-allocation problem types as Esri's own tool, so existing workflows carry over.
• Every mode: driving, walking, cycling and public transport.
• No credits used: it runs on your TravelTime licence, with no Esri credit consumption.

What does the Data toolset do?

The Data toolset answers "what is inside this catchment?" without leaving ArcGIS Pro.

It pulls TravelTime Data API layers for the areas you can reach, so you can size a market or assess a neighbourhood in the same project as your travel time analysis.

• Data from Locations takes a point layer and travel time settings, builds each location's catchment and returns the data inside it.
• Data from H3 Cells returns data for an existing layer of H3 cells, such as the output of an H3 travel time run.
• Quick Data on the ribbon returns data for a single address or a point picked on the map, adds a styled layer and shows the results in a window.

Each tool returns one of three outputs:

Filters are picked from lists. Places filter by group, category and sub-category. Open spaces filter to green spaces or beaches. Neighbourhood measures cover noise, air quality, flood risk, crime, deprivation and broadband. Outputs arrive styled: each Neighbourhood measure gets its own layer, and Places per cell is coloured by count.

Read our Data API guide for more info.

Core and Geocoding tools

Core versions of the Isochrone, Matrix and H3 tools give faster performance on large analyses.

Core tools run on TravelTime's fast endpoints and return large matrices faster, with fewer parameters and fewer supported countries. Custom tools expose every API parameter, including different traffic models, with wider coverage.

The new Geocoding tool turns any table of addresses into a point layer of lat-long coordinates. It has global coverage, with no usage limits or credit consumption, so a spreadsheet of sites can go straight into a travel time run.

Long runs are now more reliable

The add-in now finishes large jobs instead of failing on one bad search, and tells you clearly what went wrong.

Which travel time tools are in the add-in?

The TravelTime ArcGIS Pro add-in now has 11 toolbox tools plus five Quick tools.

They cover the core TravelTime API (isochrones, matrices, H3, routes and geocoding), location analysis (allocation, cannibalisation, territories, heatmaps and travel time bands) and rich location data.

Each one helps answer a set of specific questions, examples are listed below.

How do teams use travel time analysis in ArcGIS Pro?

Any team that decides where to put people, services or sites can use the add-in.

At the core, real estate, healthcare, the public sector, retail, logistics and consultancies all use it the same way: swap straight-line distance for real travel time, then layer on the data that matters.

Here are some common TravelTime ArcGIS Pro add-in use cases.

Site selection: Office location and commute analysis

Teams compare employee commutes across candidate offices by any mode, including public transport. A Travel Time Matrix from employee postcodes to each shortlisted building ranks the options by average commute. Data from Locations then adds the amenities and neighbourhood measures around each building for the client pitch.

Healthcare and the public sector: Catchments and accessibility

Service planners build time-based catchments for clinics, hospitals and council services, with public transport included. H3 tools turn those catchments into accessibility surfaces on a standard grid. Demographics per cell show how many people sit within each travel time band, and neighbourhood layers add deprivation alongside access.

Health insurers use the same tools for network adequacy: a Travel Time Matrix from member locations to in-network providers shows who falls outside the required travel time, and where the network needs another provider.

Retail, logistics and industrial: Network planning

Location planners use Location Allocation to choose which candidate sites to open, understanding demand by real travel times rather than straight-line radii. It covers all location-allocation problem types. Cannibalisation shows where a new site's catchment overlaps existing stores, and Territory Map splits a region into non-overlapping territories by fastest access.

Consultants and planners: Project-based analysis

Engineering, transport and architecture teams use Quick Isochrone, Quick Matrix and Quick Data for fast answers on a single site. Doughnut Areas and Reachability Heatmap produce client-ready maps of access bands and coverage.

Any analyst starting from a spreadsheet of addresses

Geocoding converts the list into a point layer, so address, location and travel time run as one workflow in ArcGIS Pro.

Why use TravelTime for travel time analysis in ArcGIS Pro?

TravelTime gives ArcGIS Pro users fast, accurate multimodal travel times and data layers at scale, on a licence that doesn't charge per request.

• Multimodal: car, public transport, cycling and walking in one tool, with arrival or departure times.
• Fast at scale: Core tools and H3 outputs let you analyse whole regions in a single run.
• Fixed-fee licensing: a TravelTime licence covers your usage, so you are not counting credits per request. Location Allocation and Geocoding use no Esri credits.

What changes if you are upgrading from an older version?

If you've used the add-in before, there's one change to know about: we've rebuilt the toolbox.

The old Simple, Advanced and Batch tools, and the TravelTime_Platform.tbx toolbox they lived in, have been replaced by a single Python toolbox, TravelTime.pyt, organised into Core, Custom and Other toolsets. The Simple and Advanced tools live on as the Custom tools, now with many more parameters.

If you have ModelBuilder models or scripts that call the old tools by name, point them at the new ones and you're good to go.

ArcGIS Pro 3.6 and later use the main download (v3.6.2). ArcGIS Pro 3.3–3.5 use a separate download (v3.6.1) with the same tools.

Get started with TravelTime ArcGIS Pro add-in

1. Sign in or create a TravelTime account and copy your App ID and API key.
2. Download the add-in for your ArcGIS Pro version from the installation page.
3. Double-click the .esriAddinX file to install it, then restart ArcGIS Pro.
4. Enter your App ID and API key in the add-in settings.
5. Run Quick Isochrone or Quick Data on a single address, then move to the toolbox tools for batch work.

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