A GIS-based Multicriteria Decision Making Approach for Evaluating Accessibility to Public Parks in Calgary, Alberta
This paper presents a Geographic Information System based Multicriteria Decision Making approach for evaluating accessibility to public parks in Calgary, Alberta. The approach involves the weighted linear combination with the entropy weighting method for obtaining the criterion (attribute) weights....
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| description | This paper presents a Geographic Information System based Multicriteria Decision Making approach for evaluating accessibility to public parks in Calgary, Alberta. The approach involves the weighted linear combination with the entropy weighting method for obtaining the criterion (attribute) weights. The paper demonstrates a core-periphery pattern of accessibility to public parks in Calgary. Furthermore, the pattern has shown tendency to be more polarized between the year of 2006 and 2011. The results of this research can help the park planning authorities in identifying the needs for improving the accessibility to public parks, monitoring the changes of accessibility patterns over time, and locating new public parks. The results can also help the general public to better understand the spatial relationship between their neighbourhoods and public parks in the city. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e5b8871285ba4b08891c7be0614413492022-12-21T21:19:24ZengUniversity of BucharestHuman Geographies: Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography1843-65872067-22842015-05-0191294110.5719/hgeo.2015.91.3A GIS-based Multicriteria Decision Making Approach for Evaluating Accessibility to Public Parks in Calgary, AlbertaYunliang Meng0Jacek Malczewski1Central Connecticut State University, USAWestern University, CanadaThis paper presents a Geographic Information System based Multicriteria Decision Making approach for evaluating accessibility to public parks in Calgary, Alberta. The approach involves the weighted linear combination with the entropy weighting method for obtaining the criterion (attribute) weights. The paper demonstrates a core-periphery pattern of accessibility to public parks in Calgary. Furthermore, the pattern has shown tendency to be more polarized between the year of 2006 and 2011. The results of this research can help the park planning authorities in identifying the needs for improving the accessibility to public parks, monitoring the changes of accessibility patterns over time, and locating new public parks. The results can also help the general public to better understand the spatial relationship between their neighbourhoods and public parks in the city.http://www.humangeographies.org.ro/volume-9-issue-1-2015/913-abstractGISMCDMAccessibility EvaluationPublic parks |
| spellingShingle | Yunliang Meng Jacek Malczewski A GIS-based Multicriteria Decision Making Approach for Evaluating Accessibility to Public Parks in Calgary, Alberta Human Geographies: Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography GIS MCDM Accessibility Evaluation Public parks |
| title | A GIS-based Multicriteria Decision Making Approach for Evaluating Accessibility to Public Parks in Calgary, Alberta |
| title_full | A GIS-based Multicriteria Decision Making Approach for Evaluating Accessibility to Public Parks in Calgary, Alberta |
| title_fullStr | A GIS-based Multicriteria Decision Making Approach for Evaluating Accessibility to Public Parks in Calgary, Alberta |
| title_full_unstemmed | A GIS-based Multicriteria Decision Making Approach for Evaluating Accessibility to Public Parks in Calgary, Alberta |
| title_short | A GIS-based Multicriteria Decision Making Approach for Evaluating Accessibility to Public Parks in Calgary, Alberta |
| title_sort | gis based multicriteria decision making approach for evaluating accessibility to public parks in calgary alberta |
| topic | GIS MCDM Accessibility Evaluation Public parks |
| url | http://www.humangeographies.org.ro/volume-9-issue-1-2015/913-abstract |
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