Author/Authors :
Okabe، Atsuyuki نويسنده , , Okunuki، Kei-ichi نويسنده , , Shiode، Shino نويسنده ,
Abstract :
This article shows a geographical information systems (GIS)-based toolbox for analyzing spatial phenomena that occur on a network (e.g., traffic accidents) or almost along a network (e.g., fast-food stores in a downtown). The toolbox contains 13 tools: random point generation on a network, the Voronoi diagram, the K-function and cross K-function methods, the unconditional and conditional nearest-neighbor distance methods, the Hull model, and preprocessing tools. The article also shows a few actual analyses carried out with these tools.