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Abstract
AMIS: Least Cost Path Analysis for Transportation Planning
Track: Transportation and Logistics
Author(s): Joel Brumm, Ted Grossardt, Keiron Bailey
The State requested a GIS-based route planning tool. More than 50 raster data layers were assembled within ArcView 3.2, encompassing a full spectrum of demographic, physical, and cultural features. These data layers were given a numerical rating using multicriteria decision making software and input from professionals from a variety of fields. The multicriteria decision making software then set the relative importance of these surface features as impediments or attractors, creating a travel-cost surface. This synthesis of technologies, combined in a tool termed AMIS (Analytic Minimum Impedance Surface), found the least-cost path to any point within the study area.
Joel Brumm
University of Kentucky
Kentucky Transportation Center
343 Waller Ave, Suite 300
Lexington , KY 40504
USA
Phone: 859-243-0971
Fax: 859-243-0991
E-mail: jbrumm@engr.uky.edu
Ted Grossardt
University of Kentucky
Kentucky Transportation Center
343 Waller Ave, Suite 300
Lexington 40504
USA
Phone: 859-243-0971
Fax: 859-243-0991
E-mail: thgross00@pop.uky.edu
Keiron Bailey
University of Kentucky
Kentucky Transportation Center
343 Waller Ave, Suite 300
Lexington 40504
USA
Phone: 859-243-0971
Fax: 859-243-0991
E-mail: kdbail1@pop.uky.edu