Applications of GIS in Civil Engineering

Applications of GIS in Civil Engineering
- Transportation
- Watershed analysis
- Remote sensing
- Wastewater, stormwater and Solid Waste Management
Applications of Geographic Information System in Transportation Engineering
Location-Allocation
- Finding a subset of locations from a set of potential or candidate locations that best serve some existing demand so as minimize some cost
- Locate sites to best serve allocated demand
- Application areas are warehouse location, fast food locations, fire stations, schools
Location-Allocation Inputs
- Customer or demand locations
- Potential site locations and/or existing facilities
- Street network or Euclidean distance
The best sites
- The optimal allocation of demand locations to those sites
- Lots of statistical and summary information about that particular allocation
Synergy between spatial data and analysis
- Imagine you are a national retailer
- You need warehouses to supply your outlets
- You do not wish the warehouses to be more than 1000 km from any outlet
Other Transportation Applications
Planning & locating new roadway corridors
- Transportation