期刊名称：American Journal of Geographic Information System
印刷版ISSN：2163-1131
电子版ISSN：2163-114X
出版年度：2019
卷号：8
期号：1
页码：26-38
DOI：10.5923/j.ajgis.20190801.03
语种：English
出版社：Scientific & Academic Publishing Co.
摘要：The main topic of this study is entitled as Location Allocation Analysis for Urban Public Services Using GIS techniques; A Case of Yeka Sub-City, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Yeka Sub-City is geographically found at north-eastern part of Addis Ababa, having dynamic topography. Based on CSA population projection for the year 2016, Yeka Population is estimated 424,217. The 127 primary schools give service to 60095 students enrolled in the same year. The main Purpose of the study is to increase the coverage level of the primary schools in the Sub-City to enhance access of all school age population in the same area. The general objective set to deal with the problem is to make analysis and find results on balancing the distribution of primary schools and demands of the society for the services in the entire area of Yeka. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches are followed with an applied type of research in the study. The effort employed data which comprise empirical and theoretical works of different individuals and organizations. The secondary data are supplemented with primary data for consistent findings. GIS Location allocation analysis technique in network analyst and spatial analyst tools are used. In the result it is identified that schools are not evenly distributed resulting in densely situated around infrastructures such as transport facility, road network and population, Schools are not properly separated from sources of noises, Existing Schools have been adequate for the current demand if they would have been constructed based on plan, Road network of the Sub-City is not properly structured so that it affected the analyses made on the network analyst in GIS.
关键词：ArcGIS; Network Analyst; Spatial Analyst; Location Allocation (LA); Service Area (SA); Primary school; facility (service); Demand; Location; Yeka Sub-City
