Name
Title | ||
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A Spatial Decision Support System Combining GIS and OR Tools to Optimize District Boundaries and Bus Routes for a Suburban School District |
Abstract | ||
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This paper describes a GIS-based spatial decision support system (SDSS) developed to optimize school district boundaries and bus routes in a large suburban school district, Sweet Home Central Schools. This school district is one of the three in the suburb Amherst (population 110,000) of the City of Buffalo, New York State, USA. The school district prompted the study as a result of demographic changes that have affected enrollment distribution among its four elementary schools as well as a recent construction project affecting traffic flow into and out of the school bus depot. In consultation with the school district officials two approaches are developed as part of the SDSS: a clean slate and a community approach. The clean slate approach focuses on minimizing transport costs, while the community approach focuses on the least disruption to the people in the community and balancing socio-economic and diversity issues. Scenarios for both approaches are developed based on current enrollment data. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2008 | 10.1057/ori.2008.57 | OR Insight |
Field | DocType | Volume |
Population,Traffic flow,Computer science,Transport engineering,Operations research,Spatial decision support system,Knowledge management,Delegation (computing) | Journal | 21 |
Issue | Citations | PageRank |
2 | 0 | 0.34 |
References | Authors | |
1 | 7 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Irene Casas | 1 | 25 | 3.99 |
| Robert Garrity | 2 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Deelesh Mandloi | 3 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Michelle Sunm | 4 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Jessica Weaver | 5 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Rakesh Nagi | 6 | 443 | 45.82 |
| Rajan Batta | 7 | 849 | 89.39 |