Efficient urban land use enough to accommodate future activities would be inevitable in the urban spatial structure. Especially, the location/allocation problem on aggregated public facilities in new town planning may be critical decision factors deri...
Efficient urban land use enough to accommodate future activities would be inevitable in the urban spatial structure. Especially, the location/allocation problem on aggregated public facilities in new town planning may be critical decision factors derived from the environment of the regions as well as convenience/equity/efficiency for users and planners. Although these problems may be considered as the relationship between density and location, and/or between cost and benefit, the main stream of future land use planning to solve them, could be intensive empirical/hypothetical approaches toward the distribution planning of the facilities focused on user-oriented and efficient planning procedures. Such approaches, however, may require the satisfaction of the residents and the constraints including regulations and other variables in real world.
Existing studies on the distribution or characteristics of general neighborhood/community facilities and mathematical/statistical approaches toward location/allocation problems have been introduced for these interests and requirements. More crucial problems still remain, however, to accommodate to convenience/equity/efficiency of public facility planning for users and planners. One is the problem of efficient procedures to select and simultaneous location/allocation of aggregated public facilities among numerous planning alternatives. Another is the user-oriented facility planning for convenience and equity.
This study, therefore, aims at developing a mathematical location/allocation model, so that it may suggest efficient planning alternative, providing convenience and equity for user and planners in local new community planning. For this study several data will be collected through site surveys: the degree of satisfaction, traffic mode, frequencies of users in the new towns as Changwon and Yeocheon in southern coastal area. Computer simulation techniques will be used to make it up the limits for analysis of the data. Thus each variable will be determined on the basis of existing standard/criteria of the facilities as well as statistical analyses, and Integer Programming to optimize both the process and the result will be used through LINDO and SAS/OR program. Finally, this study develops a wide-usuable and efficient location allocation model of public facilities for local new town planning in Korea.