Evaluation of spatial accessibility to town and rural in a GIS environment: A case study of Dachang County

During the seven-year research period, the average annual removal was by 3274 m3 higher than the average annual removal prescribed by the existing management plan (MP). The main reason lies in the high amount of salvage felling volume at 55,238 m3 (38.3%) in both the main and the intermediate felling due to oak dieback. The analysis of forest accessibility took into account the spatial distribution of cutblocks (with ongoing felling operations) and the volume of felled timber for two proposed factors: (1) the position of the cutblock and (2) the position of the removal. Cutblock position factor took into account the spatial position of the felling areas/sites, while removal position factor besides the spatial reference took into account the amount of felled timber (i.e., volume) both concerning forest infrastructure network and forest operations. The analysed relative forest openness by using geo-processing workflows in GIS environment showed four types of opening areas in the studied management unit (MU): single-opened, multiple-opened, unopened and opened areas outside of the management unit. Negative effects of the piece-volume law and low harvesting densities on forest operations are highlighted in this research due to high amount of salvage felling particularly in the intermediate felling by replacing timber volume that should have come from thinnings.

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MEASURING SPATIAL HEALTHCARE FACILITIES ACCESSIBILITY USING TWO-STEP FLOATING CATCHMENT ANALYSIS (2SFCA) (Case Study: Cianjur Regency, Indonesia)

Seminar Nasional Geomatika ◽

10.24895/sng.2020.0-0.1115 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 11

Author(s):

Muhamad Iqbal Januadi Putra ◽

Nabila Dety Novia Utami

Keyword(s):

Travel Time ◽

Quality Of Healthcare ◽

Healthcare Services ◽

Spatial Accessibility ◽

Healthcare Facilities ◽

Spatial Disparities ◽

Time Threshold

The presence of healthcare facilities is quite essential to provide good healthcare services in a particular area, however, the existence of healthcare facilities is not evenly distributed in Cianjur Regency. This condition leads to the disparities of healthcare facilities across the Cianjur Regency. In this paper, we aim to measure and map the spatial disparities of healthcare facilities using a Two-Step Floating Catchment Analysis (2SFCA). This method can calculate the magnitude of spatial accessibility for healthcare facilities by formulating the travel time threshold and the quality of healthcare facilities across the study area. This research shows the result that the spatial accessibility of healthcare facilities in the Cianjur Regency is not evenly distributed across the districts. The spatial accessibility value resulted from 2SFCA is ranging from 0- 3.97. A low value indicates low spatial accessibility, while a higher value shows good accessibility. The majority of districts in the Cianjur Regency have the spatial accessibility value 0-0.5 (86%). Meanwhile, only a few have the higher value; value 0.5-0.99 as much as 6.6%, 0.99-1.49 as 3.3%, and 3.48-3.97 has a percentage of 3.3%. Also, this analysis results in the cluster of good spatial accessibility in healthcare facilities, namely the Pagelaran District and Cipanas District. Interestingly, the downtown of Cianjur Regency has lower spatial accessibility compared to both areas.

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Social-Spatial Accessibility to Urban Educational Resources under the School District System: A Case Study of Public Primary Schools in Nanjing, China

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su10072305 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (7) ◽

pp. 2305 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Yan Xu ◽

Weixuan Song ◽

Chunhui Liu

Keyword(s):

School District ◽

Primary Schools ◽

Educational Resources ◽

Spatial Accessibility ◽

System A

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Evaluating Spatial Accessibility to General Hospitals with Navigation and Social Media Location Data: A Case Study in Nanjing

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph17082752 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (8) ◽

pp. 2752 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Tianlu Qian ◽

Jie Chen ◽

Ang Li ◽

Jiechen Wang ◽

Dingtao Shen

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

General Hospital ◽

Transit Time ◽

Catchment Area ◽

Spatial Accessibility ◽

Medical Services ◽

Basic Unit ◽

General Hospitals ◽

Important Indicator

Spatial accessibility to general hospitals is an important indicator of the convenience and ability of residents to obtain medical services. Therefore, developing a model for measuring accessibility to general hospitals by multiple transportation modes is necessary. In this study, considering that the increase in travel time will reduce the attractiveness of general hospitals, we used the Two-Step Floating Catchment Area with the Gaussian attenuation function, in which the supply was presented by capacity of hospitals (i.e., number of beds), and the demand was presented by population in each grid derived with social media data mapping real-time locations of active users. The Gaussian Two-Step Floating Catchment Area (Ga2SFCA) simulates the attenuation tendency of the general hospital service capabilities over transit time. To obtain a highly precise understanding of accessibility to hospitals, transit time on Baidu Maps’ navigation service was used as the impedance condition, and the study area was divided into 1 square kilometer grids as the basic unit of research. Taking Nanjing city as a case study, it is found that the accessibility distribution shape changes from a multi-centered circular pattern to a multi-peak distribution, as the time threshold increases. By comparing the accessibility among 11 districts varying from main urban area to suburbs, the accessibility to general hospitals in Nanjing is significantly regionally unbalanced in both travel modes. By calculating and mapping the Modal Accessibility Gap (MAG) of the two travel modes, different modes of transportation resulted in different general hospital accessibility distributions. Generally, private car is superior in access to general hospitals to public transit in most areas. In the central area, public traffic may not contribute to the access to medical services as much as we thought, rather it plays a role in areas far from hospitals along metro lines and bus routes.

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Impact of China's referral reform on the equity and spatial accessibility of healthcare resources: A case study of Beijing

Social Science & Medicine ◽

10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112386 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 235 ◽

pp. 112386 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Chen Lu ◽

Zixiao Zhang ◽

Xiuting Lan

Keyword(s):

Spatial Accessibility ◽

Healthcare Resources

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Information Sharing in an Interorganizational GIS Environment

Environment and Planning B Planning and Design ◽

10.1068/b2652 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 27 (3) ◽

pp. 455-474 ◽

Cited By ~ 43

Author(s):

Zorica Nedović-Budić ◽

Jeffrey K Pinto

Keyword(s):

The United States ◽

Digital Data ◽

Data Sets ◽

Case Study Methodology ◽

Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽

Private And Public ◽

Study Methodology ◽

Federal Initiatives ◽

Gis Environment

The increased acceptance and use of computerized GIS and digital data sets in private and public organizations in the United States has been in recent years further encouraged by the Federal initiatives which promote sharing of geographic data. In spite of the obvious benefits in terms of efficiency and effectiveness to be derived from sharing geographic information both within and between organizations, the idea continues to be resisted, leading to inefficiencies from duplication of data collection and storage. Using case-study methodology, we examine in this research the mechanisms and behavioral factors that can facilitate or inhibit the willingness of organizations to share GIS and databases. Five cases, including organizations with varied levels of joint GIS and database activities, were studied to determine the characteristics underlying successful interorganizational GIS. Our findings offer a number of suggestions for organizations seeking to derive maximum benefits from the interorganizational GIS activities.

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