An evaluation of primary schools and its accessibility using GIS techniques: a case study of Prayagraj district, India

Abstract

The spatial analysis of primary schools is needed to ensure that they meet standards set by the Government of India. Therefore, mapping of Prayagraj district primary schools is carried out in this research work. The spatial analysis of schools is performed using various parameters that include: literacy rate, student gender ratio, teacher taught ratio, and students’ toilets ratio. Several problems were revealed in the GIS based analysis of schools by highlighting their locations on the map. The results identify the location of all those schools where there is a need to take corrective measures. Further, the route analysis between home and school is handled in this research work. Sometimes, commutation is the sole criteria in the selection of a school. Therefore, optimal path analysis has been performed based on three parameters, i.e. population density, traveling distance and traveling time. A combined weight function is also given to find the optimal path. This work will help people to select the best possible path based upon their requirements. There is often a requirement to reach all the schools to distribute the goods or other physical monitoring activities. This work gave the optimal route to visit all the schools by using the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP). School accessibility results obtained in this research through TSP will assist in choosing the best possible route. This will help the government identify locations where new roads need to be constructed to have road connectivity.

Evaluating School Location Based on a Territorial Spatial Planning Knowledge Graph

“…The quantitative integration of various influencing factors replaces the use of overlay analysis of multiple grids [8] to obtain the final result. The shortest network distance is used to consider the commuting convenience of a school, but the road obstacles and traffic conditions are not considered [12]. Parameters such as K-order neighbours and centrality, which cannot be obtained by conducting spatial analysis, are innovatively added to measure the proximity and influence of plots instead of grid superposition and spatial statistical methods.…”

“…A multi-objective optimization model for school location-allocation coupling of demographic changes [11] proposes a multi-objective optimization model of school location considering the population changes. An evaluation of primary schools and their accessibility using GIS techniques [12] uses parameters including literacy rate, student gender ratio, teacher taught ratio and student to toilet ratio to evaluate schools and uses network analysis to optimize the path.…”

Multi-scenario location-allocation in decision-making for improving educational facility services in Kupang City

“…Spatial disparities in education facilities' service scales occur unevenly in the Kupang city administration. Overlaying several thematic maps with location-allocation analysis provides a development scenario for the placement of the education facilities (Abd El Karim and Awawdeh 2020;Meena, Tripathi, and Agrawal 2022). Secondary data in in this study include the distribution of existing educational facilities, consisting of elementary schools (SD), junior high schools (SMP), and senior high schools (SMA) derived from Kupang City's Regional Spatial Plan (RTRW) data, and road network and building distribution based on the Open Street Map (OSM) publications (Kupang 2011).…”