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Book Review: Transportation GIS

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Revised on: 2015-09-26

This book showcases many examples of how GIS can be applied in the field of transportation using ArcView GIS, but it doesn’t come with any theory. As such, Transportation GIS more like an overpriced ESRI sales brochure and not a textbook. Nevertheless, the examples are really neat and should inspire any practitioner in the field.

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ArcView Network Analyst Tutorial

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Revised on: 2011-03-11

The ArcView Network Analyst (AVNA is extension module for ArcView GIS. This tutorial was developed by Jan Husdal at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 2000-2002. It shows how to solve 3 categories of network analysis problems; Find Best Route, Find Closest Facility and Find Service Area, and it comes complete with exercise data for download and a solution. Mind you, this is a tutorial for ArcView, not for ArcGIS.
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Shortest Path Computation: A Comparative Analysis

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Revised on: 2011-07-22

Current research work into establishing a performance efficiency hierarchy between Java, C++ and ArcView is described and experimentation is performed in order to statistically compare shortest path query execution time, response time and implementation issues.

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Network analysis – raster versus vector – A comparison

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Revised on: 2015-10-05

Network analysis in GIS is often related to finding solutions to transportation problems. In a GIS the real world is represented by either one of two spatial models, vector-based, or raster-based. Real world networks, such as a road system, must be modelled appropriately to fit into the different spatial models. Even though the models differ, the solution to different transportation problems in either raster or vector GIS uses the same path finding algorithms. Whether raster or vector GIS is to be preferred is more a question of choice than of accuracy.

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