The application of GIS in railway heritage management: the case of Yunnan-Vietnam Railway

Abstract

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Railways were a key mode of transporting goods and people for industrial and urban development in the late modern age. Their special part in economic growth comes with their role in the development of cultural heritage along their pathways. However, because of competing urban construction, many railway heritages are in danger, such as the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway (YVR) in China, an important international narrow-gauge railway built in 1901, acknowledged as a railway heritage in 2018. As a typical linear heritage, the railway integrates both the natural and cultural landscapes, related to the large spatial extent and complex composition of single heritage elements. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) offer a great support in the investigation, assessment, and management of railway heritage. In this research, the huge cultural heritage related to the YVR was studied using a combined geo-historical and GIS approach. This paper aims to 1) give a brief review of the current status of the application of GIS on linear railway heritages studies, including heritage resources surveys, spatial analysis, thematic mapping and public service, 2) introduce the case study of the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway, and 3) present a geodatabase design for the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway heritage management.</p>

The Sustainable Development of Railway System in Vietnam by GIS-based Technologies

“…It effectively defines and illustrates spatial entities, systematizes their constraint relationship, and makes the defined model close as its state in the real world. A geodatabase enables unified management of geographic data in many types of formats, enabling multiple users to access and modify the same geographic area simultaneously [10].…”

“…GIS provides great chances in managing railway networks. The integrating performance of spatial analysis, 3D, and network analysis using diverse spatial layers such as hydrology, surface, slope, land cover and heritage database enable us to understand situations comprehensively [10].…”

“…The past studies showed that the GIS applications in managing cultural heritage were studied by many authors, see e.g., [10,11]. The relationship between urbanization and railway was explained by [12].…”

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“…GIS is used in many fields and disciplines today. Fields are infrastructure, urban planning, landscape, history, urban design, migration route planning, natural resources management, agriculture, electricity-gas facilities, environmental impact analysis, biology, archeology, hydrology, forest science, geology, mapping, local governments, risk management, military, transportation and remote sensing (Sang and Piovan, 2019;Sonti, 2015;Yılmaz, Erdoğan, Baybura, Güllü and Uysal, 2009;Gregory and Healey, 2007;Poudel, 2007;Yeh and Chow, 1996;Worrall, 1994;Levine and Landis, 1989;Yeh, 1991). With the use of GIS in many fields and disciplines, GIS has also been used in studies related to traffic accidents, which is one of the most important problems of transportation (Ando, Higuchi and Mimura, 2018;Kuruvilla and Saud, 2017;Pagany and Dorner, 2016;Çağlıyan et al, 2016;Korter, Olubusoye and Salisu, 2014;Altwaijri, 2013;Wang, 2010;Karakaş et al, 2009;Erdoğan, Yılmaz, Baybura and Güllü, 2008;Jones, Haynes, Kennedy, Harvey, Jewell and Lea, 2008;Saplıoğlu and Karaşahin, 2006).…”

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“…The purpose was to create spatial data that can be exploited by policy makers and planners and for other applications based on urban green spaces (UGS) typologies. [20] explains the process of creating a geodatabase for the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway heritage site using GIS analysis tools. The stratification process was adopted for each vector, raster data, and attribute table.…”