Accessibility Analysis of Urban Parks Based on GIS

Author

Kun, Wang ; Hao, Shi ; Yannan, Xu ; Mingrui, Xian ; Quan, Zhang

Author_Institution

Coll. of Forest Resources & Environ., Nanjing Forestry Univ., Nanjing, China

fYear

2012

fDate

24-25 July 2012

Firstpage

56

Lastpage

59

Abstract

Accessibility of urban parks is an important indicator in urban green space system. Urban construction is increasingly focusing on system services of green space. Based on ArcGIS, this article calculates the accessibility of the study area using the buffer analysis and cost-weighted distance methods, analyzes the service area and its population, and concludes that the result of buffer analysis method is simple and intuitive but it differs more from the real situation. The result of the cost-weighted distance method is more objective because it analyzes the accessibility using the actual cost. Based on the results, this study discusses the distribution pattern of urban parks in Changzhou city.

Keywords

geographic information systems; town and country planning; ArcGIS; Changzhou city; GIS; buffer analysis method; cost-weighted distance method; geographic information system; service area analysis; urban green space system; urban park accessibility analysis; urban park distribution pattern; Cities and towns; Educational institutions; Green products; Planning; Resistance; Rivers; Roads; Changzhou; accessibility; buffer; cost-weighted distance; urban parks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Computing Science (ICIC), 2012 Fifth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Liverpool

ISSN

2160-7443

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1985-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIC.2012.6

Filename

6258070