APPLICATIONS OF NETWORK ANALYSIS FEATURES IN GIS

Abstract

More often than not, we may find offices, schools, shopping markets, and other general facilities are not nearby to our homestay for our convenience. So, there is a need for a system that could provide routing analysis to provide transportation convenience to the users to reach their destinations. The objective of this paper is to work upon Network Analysis Features of Geographic Information System (GIS) to explore its various applications such as to find the shortest routes between multiple facilities (considering time as the impedance such as nearest schools, hospitals or any other facilities from the homestay. It will also look into the best possible way to transport goods or people from one place to various other regions through multiple means. The work done was based on anonymous network data, and the discussion presents the significant applications of Network Analysis in the ArcGIS software and its usefulness to assist in the transportation issue. Keyword: Network analysis, data description, GIS-base software, data application, Network Location Tool