scholarly journals ROAD NETWORK CONNECTIVITY ANALYSIS BASED ON GIS

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron C. Poole ◽  
James C. McCutcheon ◽  
Kayla Toohy ◽  
Bert Burraston

Increased road network connectivity has been linked to more positive outcomes among all health outcomes. Road network connectivity has yet to be tested in association with specifically criminal lethality. The current study looks to incorporate road network connectivity as an explanatory variable for criminal lethality. Data on Road Network Connectivity and Criminal Lethality are gathered for 190 cities. Data sources include the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), 2010 Census, 2010 American Community Survey, Google Earth, and Census Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER) files. The data demonstrate that a city’s road network connectivity is related to decreases in the rates of lethality among assaults. Implications of this finding are discussed.


2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhuhui He ◽  
Rui Liao ◽  
Longlong Wang

The paper studies whether the opening of community can improve the road capacity. First of all, based on the consideration of road space and traffic quality, the evaluation indexes are: road network density, road network connectivity, non-linear coefficient, traffic volume of main road beside community, delay time of intersection, travel time consumption and vehicle accessibility. Secondly, the weight of the index is calculated by the method of relative comparison, the variation coefficient method and the entropy weight method. Then, we sort the three weights, using the correlated coefficient and degree of spearman rank to combine the three weights, so as to get combined weights of various index and achieve the effect which makes good use of the method. Finally, we combine indicators and weights, establish a comprehensive evaluation model, and assess the road capacity before and after the opening of the road. Through the calculation, it is found that the comprehensive evaluation index after the opening of the community is higher than that before the opening, that is, the positive impact on the surrounding roads.


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