CONTENTS
Certificate of Original Authorship i
Certificate of Dissertation Advisor’s Consent iii
Acknowledgments v
Abstract vii
List of Figures ix
List of Tables xiii
Chapter 1: Introduction 15
1.1 Introduction to Road Urban Transportation Using GIS 15
1.1.1 Transportation Characteristic in Shillong City 15
1.2 Aim of the Study 16
1.3 Objective of Study 16
1.4 Research Design 16
Chapter 2: Literature Review 17
2.1 GIS in Transportation Network 17
2.2 Role of GIS in Road Transportation Network Planning 18
2.3 GIS Analysis Methods in Transport Network 19
2.3.1 Network Analysis 19
2.3.2 Shortest Path Analysis 19
2.1.1 Traffic Congestion & Dynamic Emergency Response Routing 20
Chapter 3: Methodology 21
3.1 Study Area and Problem Identification 21
3.1.1 Network Analysis 21
3.1.2 Demographic Characteristics and Population Projections 21
3.1.3 Problem Identification 23
3.2 System Requirement Analysis 23
3.3 Preparing Database Inventory and Data Acquisition 23
3.4 Spatial Data 23
3.5 Non-spatial Data 24
3.6 Database Creation 24
3.7 Analysis of the System 25
3.8 Result 25
Chapter 4: Study Area & Data 26
4.1 Study Area 26
4.2 Profile of Shillong City 26
4.3 Data Collection 27
4.4 System Requirement 29
4.4.1 Computer Hardware 29
4.4.2 Computer Softwares 29
Chapter 5: Design & Creation of Database 30
5.1 Database 30
5.1.1 Conceptual Database Design 30
5.1.2 Logical Database Design 30
5.1.3 Physical Database Design 31
5.2 Spatial Database Creation 31
5.2.1 Scanning 31
5.2.2 Georeferencing 32
5.2.3 Defining Coordinate System 32
5.2.4 Creation of Layers 32
5.2.5 Creation of Geodatabas 37
5.2.6 Digitization & Quality Checking 37
5.3 Non-spatial Database Creation 37
5.3.1 Attribute Data Creation in ArcGIS 37
5.3.2 Field Survey & Information Collection 38
5.3.2.1 Vehicle Increment 39
5.3.2.2 Accident Data 40
5.4 Data Entry & Integration of Spatial and Non-spatial Data 40
5.5 Survey Forms 41
Chapter 6: Data Processing 42
6.1 Pixel-Based Feature Extraction 42
6.1.1 Pixel-based approach using ArcGIS 42
6.1.2 Pixel-based approach using ArcGIS 43
6.2 Object-Oriented Feature Extraction 44
6.2.1 Segmentation 44
6.2.2 Class Hierarchy and Image Classification 45
6.2.3 Automatic Vectorisation 46
6.3 Visual Interpretation 47
Chapter 7: Analysis 48
7.1 Network Analysisn 48
7.2 Road Network Gap Analysis 49
7.2.1 Network Coverage of Road 49
7.2.1.1 Road Density 49
7.2.1.2 Population Density 49
7.2.2 Road Connectivity in Network 54
7.2.2.1 Alpha Index 54
7.2.2.2 Beta Index 54
7.2.2.3 Gamma Index 54
7.2.2.3 Gamma Index 54
7.3 Parking Survey and Analysis 61
7.3.1 Site Suitability for New Parking Space 67
7.4 Traffic Volume Survey and Analysis 71
7.5 Origin Destination Survey and Analysis 76
7.6 Emergency Time Shortest Route Analysis 79
7.7 Service Area Analysis 80
Chapter 8: Conclusion 83
8.1 Future Scope 83
References 84