THE GEOTRANS GEOGRAPHIC DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM

GEOTRANS (GEographical Optimizer for TRANSportation) is an implementation of a GDSS (Geographical Decision Support System) for rural transportation. GEOTRANS can be used in a wide variety of rural transportation applications. Examples include: customized maps and reports, facility location analysis, shortest route analysis, point-to-point transportation analysis, regional demographic data displays, truck and bus routing and scheduling, census data analysis, and location and siting analysis for manufacturing facilities, public service facilities, emergency service facilities, and waste disposal facilities. GEOTRANS was developed under the sponsorship of the Mountain-Plains Consortium of Transportation Institutes, with the North Dakota State University Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute being the lead institute. Section 1 of this report provides an introduction. Section 2 describes the major issues involved in extending GIS functionality into the network modeling domain. Section 3 is a presentation of the GIS capabilities on GEOTRANS. In Section 4, the integration of network models into GEOTRANS is explained and a number of examples are included. A Conclusion and Further Work Section summarizes the capabilities and potential of GEOTRANS, and describes some areas to consider for future work. Finally, details concerning getting started with GEOTRANS on a PC platform are provided in an Appendix.

• Record URL:
  https://www.ugpti.org/resources/reports/details.php?id=317
• Corporate Authors:

  Mountain-Plains Consortium

  North Dakota State University
  Fargo, ND  United States  58108
• Authors:
  • Nygard, K E
  • Haugrud, M J
• Publication Date: 1994-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Figures;
• Pagination: 45 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Decision support systems; Geographic information systems; Network analysis (Planning); Rural areas; Simulation; Transportation planning
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00669026
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: MPC Rept No. 94-31
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 22 1994 12:00AM