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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"spatial accessibility"”.
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Integrating cyberGIS and big data for scalable spatial accessibility analysis
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Spatial Accessibility to Public Outdoor Recreation Destinations from Austin, Texas, 2010
… lands in Central Texas. We develop an index of spatial accessibility to public outdoor wilderness areas from origins within the Austin urban areas to determine relative levels of accessibility to the outdoors from the urban core. We also seek to discover demographic characteristics of those with …
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Understanding Technology Diffusion and Spatial Accessibility in the Home Healthcare Industry
… impacts of home telehealth and potential spatial accessibility of home healthcare services. Home telehealth is a promising technology that can increase efficiency and health outcomes. However, the diffusion of this technology has been slow basically due to lack of reimbursement and lack of …
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Quantitative measurement of spatial accessibility to locations both in urban and peri-urban environments
… less travel distances and transportation costs. Accessibility is an important aspect of transportation planning. It is used to measure the spatial separation of human activities such as commerce, employment and quality of life. Accessibility reflects the extent of interaction between an area's …
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GIS-based analysis of spatial accessibility : an approach to determine public primary healthcare demand in metropolitan areas
… a population with changing healthcare needs. The spatial distribution of people and their varying need for healthcare services is a long-standing interest in the field of service planning, and provides a classic issue well suited for Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to analyse. Access is an …
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Planning Towards Equal Spatial Accessibility of NCI Cancer Centers Across Geographic Areas and Demographic Groups in the U.S.
… criterion for improving and promoting equal accessibility should be factored into the designation and planning process of NCI Cancer Centers. With the help of regression and dummy variables, this research evaluates geographic disparities in spatial accessibility of the NCI Cancer Centers …
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Investigating Health Inequality in Primary Care Spatial Accessibility Among Races and Ethnicities in King County Using a Geospatial Approach
… and primary care physicians increase. Although spatial accessibility to primary care resources has been studied using different methods in recent decades, few studies have addressed disparities such accessibility among races/ethnicities. Therefore, we used Enhanced Two-Step Floating Catchment …
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The spatial accessibility of attractive parks in Chicago and a proposed planning support system to evaluate the accessibility of points of interest
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-04-06 without embargo terms
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Development of a geographical information system based transport assessment approach in rural South Africa - The Case of Healthcare Accessibility in Cape Winelands District Municipality
… facilities for the populations that they serve. Spatial distribution of population, transport infrastructure, as well as spatial distribution of healthcare facilities are key characteristics that influence the disparities in spatial accessibility to healthcare facilities. Regardless of the …
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Measuring Accessibility to Primary Care Physicians in the Nashville Metropolitan Statistical Area
… administrative units and fail to account for spatial interactions that occur across administrative borders. This research examines the spatial accessibility to PCPs and the underlying demographic and socioeconomic settings. With the Nashville Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) as a study …
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Enhancing our understanding of accessibility to sport in Wales through geospatial analysis
… sporting bodies to investigate patterns of spatial accessibility to sports facilities in Wales. Whilst there is a growing literature on the use of network-based approaches to measure access to facilities and services, there has been less emphasis on examining inequalities in access to …
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JPEG2000-based scalable interactive video (JSIV)
… JPEG2000 frames to provide for quality and spatial resolution scalability, as well as temporal and spatial accessibility; prediction and conditional replenishment of precincts to exploit inter-frame redundancy; and loosely-coupled server and client policies. The concept of loosely-coupled …
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Concentration and dispersion of primary care physicians and implications for access to care in Cook County, Illinois: 2000-2008
… goal of this research is to analyze the changing spatial distribution and clustering of primary care physicians in Cook County, Illinois from 2000 to 2008. Using data from the American Medical Association's Physicians Master File for 2000 and 2008, primary care physician locations are geocoded, …
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Extending the Geographic Information Systems Research Agenda by Studying the Spatial Dimension of the Complex Real-World Problem of Homelessness
… three-paper format, studying homelessness from a spatial perspective. The first, introductory chapter in this dissertation investigates the claim that Information System (IS) field is well suited to the study of complex real-world problems such as homelessness due to its inherently …
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Choosing success? Inequalities and opportunities in access to school choice in nine United States districts
… crowded schools. The present study utilizes a spatial approach to analyze the spatial accessibility of schools of choice and how it relates to the racial composition, performance and location of public schools across 9 of the largest school districts in the U.S. In addition, Geographically …
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Socio-spatial entanglement theory, the I2S2A method, and civil legal service realized accessibility
Most spatial and social service accessibility studies are unidimensional; they examine one dimension of service accessibility in isolation. These unidimensional studies are not responsive to the realities of service usage. This is because unidimensional service accessibility studies implicitly …
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Proximity and Prenatal Care: Geographic Accessibility to Healthcare Facilities in N’Djamena, Chad
… maternal and neonatal mortality rates. Yet, accessibility to healthcare facilities remains an understudied challenge in many sub-Saharan African countries. This study examines the spatial accessibility to healthcare facilities in N’Djamena, Chad, across various transportation modes, as well …
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A Geographic Framework for the Optimal Placement of Interventions for Opioid Treatment Deployment in Underserved Areas (OPIOID-UA)
… location. This research seeks to investigate the spatial components of a complex system in response to a gradual onset crisis in an effort to develop a framework of spatial response. The context of the research will be the spatial system in which the health care system delivers care,; the crisis …
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Measuring spatial and social interdependencies between public schools and the community: City of Cambridge
… structures of social infrastructure, the spatial conditions under which they assume that role has been understudied. This thesis investigates how the relationship between public schools and the surrounding neighborhood may vary depending on the spatial interdependence among their …
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Applying Web-Based Technologies to Better Understand Access to Services using Public Transport
Public transport accessibility is a cornerstone of urban planning, social equity, and sustainability. Yet, maintaining equitable access to essential services in the event of evolving challenges such as population growth, changes in transport configurations and global crises remains a critical …
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