Weekly service planning brief
Roadworks, weather and new developments in one weekly brief.
What it does
Every Friday: roadworks this week, the weather ahead and new developments in your city, joined by xMap AI into a one-page brief for the service planning team.
In one sentence: Fridays at 12:00, in Stockholm, find roadworks and road closures, get the 7-day weather forecast, find apartment complexes and shopping malls in the area, write a report with xMap AI, then email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Service planners need one page each Friday. Three signals joined make it.
Who it is for
Public transport & transit. Transit agencies, bus and rail operators and mobility planners placing stops, running services around disruptions and reaching riders. Every use case for public transport
Best use cases
- A transit agency’s planning team
- A bus operator
- A city transport department
What each run gives you
- An email
The time it saves
Fridays at 12:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 45 minutes each time; it runs about 5 times a month, so it saves about 4 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 7 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- Every FridayTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- My cityWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Roadworks this weekxMap data · Traffic incidentsRoad closures, roadworks and other incidents on online maps right now, with where they are.
- Forecast for 7 daysxMap data · Weather forecastThe weather forecast (Open-Meteo, from national weather services) for up to 16 days: temperature, rain, wind and UV.
- New developmentsxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.
- Write the service briefxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- 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.
- The map: everything your AI employees found: Results, Map: every result as layers on one map, with filters, a time slider, a card for each result and Compare sites.
- The xMap Flows browser extension: what is around this business: On a company’s website or a place on a map, one click shows its market and the AI employees to hire for it.
- What xMap remembers about your company: Your city, industry and what you sell, filled in for you and always yours to change.
- Location intelligence: Using where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
- Site selection: Choosing where to open a store, branch, clinic or facility.
- How to find new businesses in a city every morning: A daily list of newly listed businesses of a type, ranked, in your inbox.
More for Public transport & transit
- On-demand minibus zones for older residents: Zones for an on-demand minibus where older people lack stops.
- Where new cycle lanes would be used most: Blocks ranked for new cycle lanes by young adults and cycling signs.
- Blocks with many people and few bus stops: Blocks with many people and few bus stops, for the network plan.
- Schools with many children and few bus stops: Schools with many children and few stops, for school bus routes.
- Park and ride sites at the edge of the city: Stations scored as park and ride sites.
- Malls far from stations, for shuttle partnerships: Malls far from stations, offered a shared shuttle.