GIS-based accessibility analysis for network optimal location model

Analyzing the Impact of Service Accessibility Enhancement on Urban Energy Efficiency Based on GIS Network Analysis

analyzing the impact of service accessibility enhancement on urban energy efficiency based on gis network analysis

cities are a focal point of energy consumption. accessibility to public services has a significant impact on the balance of public and private energy uses, which are two sectors that are directly affected by urban planning (the third is industrial). this paper establishes the relative magnitudes of service accessibility enhancement on urban energy efficiency in comparison to other factors, and ...

Location of manufactured housing and its accessibility to community services: a GIS-assisted spatial analysis

This paper investigates the location and accessibility disadvantages of manufactured housing using Geographical Information Systems. It is found that, on an aggregated basis, manufactured housing has been placed further away from positive public-community facilities and, hence, services than other types of housing. It has also been placed further away from major employment centers. Moreover, a ...

An Optimal Resource Allocation Tool for Urban Development Using GIS-based Accessibility Measures and Stochastic Frontier Analysis

Visualizing Accessibility with GIS

Introduction As the environmental, social, and health costs of sprawling, automobile dependent development patterns become well understood, accessibility, or walkability, becomes a significant goal of planners, policy makers, and citizens. Our current planning environment is one of auto-mobility, which has the goal of reducing the cost per mile of travel within a metropolitan area. An automobil...