Decision Support Framework for Space-Use Efficiency and Arrangement of Public Services

Abstract

This article focuses on the issue of a sustainable space-use in public facilities and beneficial arrangement of services. Uncorrelated facility planning and service programming as well as environmental factors cause discrepancies between space demand and space supply leading to space overuse or underuse. To enhance the functional and economic efficiency of public facilities a conceptual framework, which is a planning and evaluation tool for decision support, is presented and discussed on examples. The framework consists of two decisive elements: space-Manuscript Click here to access/download;Manuscript;Manuscript.docx use analysis and service compatibility analysis. The first one aims to determine the degree of space utilization in multiple public buildings while the latter reports on how services are related to each other in terms of their compatibility. The article explains these concepts in details on examples.

Studying the Basic Public Services' Equilibrium: an Empirical Analysis Using Sichuan Municipal Panel Data

“…Building up the social public service system is essential to improving people's well-being and ensuring and improving their livelihood [1]. At the national level, a series of documents such as the 14th Five-Year Plan for Public Services and the National Basic Public Service Standards (2021 Edition) have been promulgated, and local governments have also put forward their own 14th Five-Year Plans according to their own characteristics.…”