Spatial Analysis of Libraries to Be Decommissioned in Leicestershire Using Location Allocation Technique

Birmah M. Nyadar¹ , Jennifer Yashi² , Alfred Y. Buba³ , Blessing I. Soughul⁴

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.9 , Issue.9 , pp.53-60, Sep-2023

Online published on Sep 30, 2023

Copyright © Birmah M. Nyadar, Jennifer Yashi, Alfred Y. Buba, Blessing I. Soughul . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
 

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Abstract :
Planning for the growth of a city can go a long way if the appropriate tools are available to influence the desired outcomes, hence the distribution of users and the placement of public amenities balances out the demand and supply chain. This study aims to support the application of a location-allocation model using GIS for spatial distribution analysis in Leicestershire. Making budgetary cuts in Leicester has become imperative to increase savings by up to 20% and so the government at the local level and the public organizations have been persuaded to undertake these budget cuts, however, how to accomplish this task poses a technical challenge. Geographic analysis proves to be most adequate with three well-known methods that can be applied namely, Euclidean distance measurement (Buffering), network distance, and location-allocation technique. The location-allocation technique was employed in this study to identify the actual and original locations of libraries in Leicester and determine the distance between them which ultimately reveals that a gap exists between the libraries and the prospective target regions. The allocation approach examines how close each locality`s population is to the closest public facility that is currently known. Due to the proximity of the amenities (libraries) and the demand points (centroids), the results indicated that the chosen libraries were in regions that were easily accessible to the local population. In a demand-supply environment with few faults, location-allocation procedures have been shown to be the optimum choice. Routes from demand and supply places may be measured with much greater accuracy using other spatial analytic techniques, such as network distance analysis.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Location-Allocation, Accessibility, demand-supply, Centroid, Facilities, Demand point, GIS

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