A support system that delineates location-choice sets for firms seeking office space
Contribuinte(s) |
Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) |
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Data(s) |
02/03/2016
02/03/2016
2010
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Resumo |
Factors influencing the location decisions of offices include traffic, accessibility, employment conditions, economic prospects and land-use policies. Hence tools for supporting real-estate managers and urban planners in such multidimensional decisions may be useful. Accordingly, the objective of this study is to develop a GIS-based tool to support firms who seek office accommodation within a given regional or national study area. The tool relies on a matching approach, in which a firm's characteristics (demand) on the one hand, and environmental conditions and available office spaces (supply) on the other, are analyzed separately in a first step, after which a match is sought. That is, a suitability score is obtained for every firm and for every available office space by applying some value judgments (satisfaction, utility etc.). The latter are powered by a focus on location aspects and expert knowledge about the location decisions of firms/organizations with respect to office accommodation as acquired from a group of real-estate advisers; it is stored in decision tables, and they constitute the core of the model. Apart from the delineation of choice sets for any firm seeking a location, the tool supports two additional types of queries. Firstly, it supports the more generic problem of optimally allocating firms to a set of vacant locations. Secondly, the tool allows users to find firms which meet the characteristics of any given location. Moreover, as a GIS-based tool, its results can be visualized using GIS features which, in turn, facilitate several types of analyses. |
Formato |
1-17 |
Identificador |
http://arrow.monash.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/monash:39258 Applied GIS, v. 6, n. 1, p. 1-17, 2010. 1832-5505 http://hdl.handle.net/11449/134571 3157732431548711 |
Idioma(s) |
eng |
Relação |
Applied GIS |
Direitos |
closedAccess |
Palavras-Chave | #GIS #Office site selection #Decision support system |
Tipo |
info:eu-repo/semantics/article |