Latest Contributions by TomErik

Hello, Does anyone know a good way to express the difference in travel time from the same demand to a set of facilities? Let's say you use OD cost matrix to find the closest distance to two seperate facilities. Also, is it useful to regress variables to travel time, and how could this be done? ... View more

Hey guys, I’m looking to compare two different building agglomerations to a facility-type in their spatial access. I’ve read some litterature on the 2-step floating catchment metric, and different variations of this. Would anyone care to explain to me the primary difference between this method and using Network Analyst?:) I understand that it uses scores as opposed to travel time, and that it may use networks as a way to measure distance. Could these scores be compared across analyses, say if I ran the analyses twice on different agglomerations? Best, Tom Erik ... View more

Hello everyone, I'm at the start-up phase of my thesis in geoinformatics and was hoping someone here would be kind enough to aid me in narrowing down the subject. The University supervisor and I have established that the subject will be along the lines of spatial accessibility to healthcare in Norway. My initial research question was to investigate the spatial accessibility in cabins to health clinics in specific regions, especially since a large portion of the Norwegian population (~10%) are cabin owners and migrate to their cabins during holiday times and so on. These cabins are often located in rural, mountainous areas far from health care services and I thought it could be interesting to see if the capacity in the closest nearby hospitals would be able to withstand the new hidden demand. Would there be any consequenece for ambulatory care sensitive conditions, for example. Data I have access to: All buildings as points, with a building-type category (no capacity per cabin) (I am able to extract cabins) A road-network for the entire country which needs to be built Administrative borders I have all hospitals in a point layer with data like: number of physicians and hospital beds. I'm now on the onset of making a literature review on the subject, but I can't help feeling that the whole study I am attempting to do is in a few ways redundant. Can anyone aid me in this? I have about 2 weeks to finish the literature review, and I feel like the subject at hand is not even established, which makes it incredibly difficult to do ... View more