Editorial: Geospatial and Transport Modeling in Stroke Service Planning

Editorial: Some thoughts on geospatial analysis and modeling

This issue contains papers selected from the contributions presented at the 1st International Cartographic Association (ICA) Workshop on Geospatial Analysis and Modeling held in Vienna on the 8th of July, 2006 (http://www.hig.se/~bjg/ica/workshop/). The theme papers demonstrate partially recent developments in geospatial analysis and modeling for uncovering knowledge for various applications. T...

Valuing Service Quality Impacts In Transport Planning

Travelers tend to place a high value on qualitative factors such as convenience, comfort, security and prestige. However, conventional transport planning practices tend to focus on quantitative impacts and undervalue qualitative impacts. This paper describes ways to evaluate qualitative impacts. Improved travel convenience and comfort tend to reduce unit travel time costs and so are equivalent ...

Transport Logistics Planning with Service-Level Constraints

In this paper, we study a logistics problem arising in military transport planning. A military organization operates a large fleet of vehicles in a depot to serve the requests of various operational units. Each request has a fixed start and end time, and is served by a prescribed number of vehicles. We address the following two problems: (1) how many vehicles are at least needed to meet a given...

Planning for Geospatial Data Integration

In the recent past there have been significant research and industrial efforts to support access to large amount of geospatial data sources. Examples of industrial efforts include different data access standards proposed by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OpenGIS)1 and the availability of satellite imagery and other data on websites, such as TerraServer2. In order to better understand the resea...

Geospatial Monitoring and Modeling System