School of City and Regional Planning GIS Capstone Projects
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Recent Submissions
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Covid-19 Vulnerability Index for United States Counties
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020)COVID-19 is a highly infective virus with a rapid transmission rate. It has led to a pandemic that has impacted millions of people all around the world. In the United States alone, over 3 million people have being directly ... -
A Text-Mining and GIS Approach to Understanding Transit Customer Satisfaction
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-24)Performance evaluation is a concept that most can understand. Examples of performance evaluation include evaluating the performance of students in schools via assignments and exams, and corporations and boards evaluating ... -
Quantifying Impact of Weather Condition on Travel Time
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020)Most transportation systems operate at capacity. Minor changes in the system could result in congestion and delays. One of the many impacting factors of transportation is weather condition. Weather conditions might lead ... -
Modeling Transit Dependency Index and the Analysis on the Intersecting Transit-Dependent Groups: A Spatial Microsimulation Approach
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-12)This research is primarily focused on building a methodology framework to model a Composite Transit Dependency Index (CTDI) that incorporates various Transit-Dependent groups. The application of Spatial Microsimulation in ... -
What statistical and spatial relationships exist between health insurance, race, income, and education in the state of Georgia immediately before and after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-08)What statistical and spatial relationships exist between health insurance, race, income, and education in the state of Georgia immediately before and after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act?”. To answer this ... -
Highways, Urban renewal, and patterns in the Built Environment: Exploring Impacts on Atlanta Neighborhoods
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-08)During the mid-twentieth century, cities across the United States underwent drastic changes known broadly at the time as “urban renewal.” In many cases, these changes included widespread demolition of varied neighborhoods ... -
Economic Shifts Along the US-Mexico Border: Investigating the Changes in Location Quotient at the Block Level in Four US Border
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-08)US border cities are often considered “city-pairs” with coinciding Mexican industrial cities. Current literature suggests that the export economy of these Mexican cities increases employment in US border cities for the ... -
Calculating Change in Regional Accessibility Due to Autonomous Vehicles
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-08)The following project tries to answer the question “How will autonomous vehicles affect growth in the Metro Atlanta region?” We attempt to do this through calculating how accessibility will change based on traffic conditions. ... -
A Future Energy Harvesting Scenario for Georgia Tech Campus Using Photovoltaic Solar Panels And Piezoelectric Materials
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016)This paper discusses harvesting solar and piezo energy and uses GIS analysis for site-selection on the Georgia Tech campus. -
Using SLAMM to Better Understand Sea Level Rise on the Francis Marion National Forest
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016)This paper uses SLAMM & Satellite Imagery to better understand the influence of sea-level rise on ecosystems. -
Using GIS and Python for Assessment and Prioritization of Potential Transit Projects
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016)This project attempts to test the use of a combination of GIS and Python to assess and prioritize potential transit projects. -
A Dream Deferred? Utilizing the Limited-Equity Housing Cooperative Model as a Solution to Atlanta's Affordable Housing Issue
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016)As most of the nation continues to recover from the financial repercussions of the Great Recession, the struggle for housing affordability remains. Home ownership is more difficult to obtain, while rental rates are on an ... -
Ethnic Communities and Economic Sustainability
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016)This paper sets out to examine the relationship between economically sustainable places and ethnic communities. Using simple and easily repeated GIS processing, we examined if on a citywide scale ethnic communities were ... -
A Standardized Geodatabase Form for Cultural Resource Management
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015)The field of archaeology has been absent of a standardized geodatabase system to store, share, analyze and display data collected from archaeological investigation. Data storage and database system vary greatly between ... -
Supporting Cancer Prevention Strategies Using Geospatial Analysis on HRSA data
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016)This paper uses develops a methodology to geospatially analyze factors associated with disparities in cancer rates.