Road speeds outside my depots, every hour
How the roads outside each depot are moving, every hour, the most jammed first.
What it does
Every hour: how the traffic is moving on the roads next to each depot in your table (the speed against free flow, the jam factor and the busiest road), the most jammed first, in a short note by xMap AI for the dispatchers, posted to Slack and emailed.
In one sentence: Every hour at :00, take your table, measure the traffic around them, sort them by jam_factor and keep the top 10, write a report with xMap AI, then send message to a channel in Slack and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
A truck that leaves into a jam is late for every stop after. Knowing which depot gates are jammed now tells dispatch which trucks to hold or reroute.
Who it is for
Logistics, fleet & delivery. Dispatch, fleet and delivery teams who keep goods moving around closures, weather and ports. Every use case for logistics & delivery
Best use cases
- A haulage company’s dispatch
- A parcel carrier’s depot managers
- A food distributor
What each run gives you
- A Slack post
- An email
The time it saves
Every hour at :00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 20 minutes each time; it runs about 720 times a month, so it saves about 40 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 7 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- Every hourTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- Our depotsYour data · My dataBrings in a table you uploaded or a list you saved on the My data page: your stores, customers, target accounts or sites.
- Traffic outside each depotxMap data · Traffic FlowHow the traffic is moving on the roads around each place, right now: the current speed and the free-flow speed in km/h, how jammed the roads are (a jam factor from 0, free, to 10, standstill), the congestion as a percentage, the level in words, how many roads were measured and closed, and the busiest road.
- The 10 most jammed firstLogic · Sort and limitPuts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.
- Write the dispatch notexMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Post it to #dispatchApp · SlackChannel-based messaging platform
- Email me the listAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.
Use it now
Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.
How to set it up
- Build your first flow in ten minutes: From a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
- Enrich a list once: A CSV of addresses or companies back with phone, website, rating and an AI score.
- Your own tables and lists (My data): Upload a CSV, save lists of results, and use them in flows.
- Score, rank and label with xMap LLM: A score and a reason for every result, in your words.
- Geofencing: A virtual boundary that triggers something when an item enters or leaves it.
- How to monitor road closures near your sites: Every few minutes, the incidents that affect your sites or fleet.
- How to score candidate store sites: Compare sites on residents, competitors and neighbours, with an AI score and a reason.
More for Logistics, fleet & delivery
- Daily operations briefing for every hub: A daily operations briefing per hub, with a risk score and alerts for the risky ones.
- Where to put micro-fulfilment hubs: Where to put micro-fulfilment hubs: most people per warehouse first.
- Incidents near my drivers’ zones: Incidents near your drivers' zones every 15 minutes, to dispatch.
- New warehouses and distributors to sell to: New warehouses and distributors, scored, with the operations manager, into HubSpot.
- Road closures near my depots, every hour: Closures and roadworks near each depot every hour, to dispatch on WhatsApp.
- Shops to host parcel pick-up points: Shops scored as parcel pick-up points, with the owner.