The purpose of research is to find characteristics of location decision factors of mart by using GIS. And this paper is focused on comparative analysis of large cities and small-medium cities. The analysis was conducted by using the 'Commercial Distri...
The purpose of research is to find characteristics of location decision factors of mart by using GIS. And this paper is focused on comparative analysis of large cities and small-medium cities. The analysis was conducted by using the 'Commercial District Information System' of the Small Enterprise Development Agency. The result of the analysis exhibited that the optimum range for trade area in large cities is 500m, while the optimum range is 300m in regional small-medium cities. In other words, the range of trade area in large cities is wider than that in small-medium cities. In addition, location decision factors of the mart were different between large cities and small-medium cities. For example, the number of apartments is a location decision factor of the mart in large cities, whereas the number of non-apartments is a location decision factor in small-medium cities.