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Applications of GIS in Civil Engineering

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Applications of GIS in Civil Engineering

  • Transportation
  • Watershed analysis
  • Remote sensing
  • Wastewater, stormwater and Solid Waste Management

Applications of Geographic Information System in Transportation Engineering

Location-Allocation

  • Finding a subset of locations from a set of potential or candidate locations that best serve some existing demand so as minimize some cost
  • Locate sites to best serve allocated demand
  • Application areas are warehouse location, fast food locations, fire stations, schools

Location-Allocation Inputs

  • Customer or demand locations
  • Potential site locations and/or existing facilities
  • Street network or Euclidean distance

The best sites

  • The optimal allocation of demand locations to those sites
  • Lots of statistical and summary information about that particular allocation

Synergy between spatial data and analysis

  • Imagine you are a national retailer
  • You need warehouses to supply your outlets
  • You do not wish the warehouses to be more than 1000 km from any outlet

Other Transportation Applications

Planning & locating new roadway corridors

  • Transportation

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