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GIS for Decision Support and Economic DevelopmentBeau Bradley, Neighborhood Transformation Initiative
Jim Querry, Mayor’s Office of Information Services
Megan Heckert, Avencia Incorporated
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April 15, 2007 www.avencia.com
APA 2007 National Planning Conference
Neighborhood Transformation InitiativeA strategy to preserve and rebuild Philadelphia’s neighborhoods
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• Eliminate blighting conditions
• Attract investment to neighborhoods
• Improve delivery of services and resources
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Decision Support Objectives
Need identified for business siting tool to:
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• Describe social, economic, and geographic factors
• Categorize areas based on attractiveness and suitability
• Useable by various city departments
• Leverage GIS technologies without requiring GIS expertise to use
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Building on GIS Infrastructure - MOIS
Enterprise Geospatial Data Repository
ULRS Address Integrator
Departmental Databases
CityMaps GeoServicesGeospatial processing
ULRS Web ServicesProperty data integration
Master Address Dictionary
Enterprise GeoWeb Services
DecisionMaps Objectives
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Contribute to Job Growth in Philadelphia
Adaptable to many types of clients
• Customizable
• Able to generate multiple versions of model results
• Able to use results to filter available properties
• Desktop functionality in a browser
• Simple user interface
• Leverage powerful functionality from ArcGIS Server
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Why Locate There?
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Why Locate There?
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Proximity to Transit Lines
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Why Locate There?
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Proximity to Transit Lines
High Density of College Grads
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Why Locate There?
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Proximity to Transit Lines
High Density of College Grads
High Density of Home Sales
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Why Locate There?
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Proximity to Transit Lines
High Density of College Grads
High Density of Home Sales
High Per Capita Income
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Why Locate There?
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Proximity to Transit Lines
High Density of College Grads
High Density of Home Sales
High Per Capita Income
In An Economic Incentive Zone
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How do you choose a site?
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Proximity to Transit Lines
High Per Capita Income
High Density of College Grads
High Density of Home Sales
In An Economic Incentive Zone
Business siting is about making a choice based on the composite of several location based decision
variables
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How do you do this?
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City of Philadelphia
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How do you do this?
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Broken into a grid of cells
City of Philadelphia
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How do you do this?
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City of Philadelphia
Broken into a grid of cells
Each cell has a value for any given layer of information
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How do you do this?
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City of Philadelphia
Broken into a grid of cells
Each cell has a value for any given layer of information
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How do you do this?
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City of Philadelphia
Broken into a grid of cells
Each cell has a value for any given layer of information
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How do you do this?
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City of Philadelphia
Broken into a grid of cells
Each cell has a value for any given layer of information
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This cell based approach enables us to combine layers using a process called map algebra
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Map Algebra
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Using previous example
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Proximity to Transit Lines
High Per Capita Income
High Density of College Grads
High Density of Home Sales
In An Economic Incentive Zone
Business siting is about making a choice based on the composite of several location based decision
variables
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Create series of raster layers
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Proximity to Transit Lines
High Per Capita Income
High Density of College Grads
High Density of Home Sales
In An Economic Incentive Zone
GIS for Decision Support and Economic Development • April 15, 2007
Create series of raster layers
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Proximity to Transit Lines
High Per Capita Income
High Density of College Grads
High Density of Home Sales
In An Economic Incentive Zone
GIS for Decision Support and Economic Development • April 15, 2007
Create series of raster layers
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Proximity to Transit Lines
High Per Capita Income
High Density of College Grads
High Density of Home Sales
In An Economic Incentive Zone
GIS for Decision Support and Economic Development • April 15, 2007
Create series of raster layers
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Proximity to Transit Lines
High Per Capita Income
High Density of College Grads
High Density of Home Sales
In An Economic Incentive Zone
GIS for Decision Support and Economic Development • April 15, 2007
Create series of raster layers
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Proximity to Transit Lines
High Per Capita Income
High Density of College Grads
High Density of Home Sales
In An Economic Incentive Zone
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Assign weights to raster layers
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Proximity to Transit Lines
High Per Capita Income
High Density of College Grads
High Density of Home Sales
In An Economic Incentive Zone
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x 2
x 4
x 5
x 2
x -2
Derive output raster
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Proximity to Transit Lines x 2
High Per Capita Income x 2
Density of College Grads x 4
Density of Home Sales x 5
Economic Incentive Zone -2
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Contribution to Neighborhood TransformationCurrent and future applications
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• Commercial corridors
• Vacant land
• Dangerous buildings and code violations
• Tied to commercial database
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Future enhancements and applications
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Enhancements
• New raster format
• Distributed calculations
• User upload of data
• Data export
Applications
• Open space conservation
• Public health
• Urban forestry
Questions? Visit us online!www.avencia.com
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