AMIS: Least Cost Path Analysis for Transportation Planning

Authors

Joel Brumm, University of Kentucky
Ted H. Grossardt, University of KentuckyFollow
Keiron Bailey, University of Kentucky

Abstract

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.

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

7-2002

Notes/Citation Information

Published in the 2002 Proceedings of the Environmental Systems Research Institute User Conference, Paper 521.

The copyright holders have granted the permission for posting the article here.

Repository Citation

Brumm, Joel; Grossardt, Ted H.; and Bailey, Keiron, "AMIS: Least Cost Path Analysis for Transportation Planning" (2002). Kentucky Transportation Center Faculty and Researcher Publications. 11.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/ktc_facpub/11