Authors : Alauldeen A. Rahman, Jasim A.A. AL-Baghdadi, Ala H. Elaiwi and Falah Abed
Abstract: Although, the recreational parks in a city are necessary for population entertaining, many people are still facing problems in accessing these leisure parks within the city. This is because that the parks locations are not favorable and not accessible for many citizens to reach from their places of residents. There are a number of planning standards (parameters) and designing specifications have to be followed to select the location of recreational parks. All of these planning standards are hard to be applied manually by urban planners. However, the procedure currently used to choose parks location is still inadequate and follows traditional style. The GIS technique can assist the specialists and planners to select the optimal location (e.g., recreational park location) according urban planning standards. Thus, this research proposed a new GIS procedure utilized to select the best recreational parks location in a medium size city (Shatrah) in the South of Iraq using GIS technique. ArcGIS Software was used to classify the spatial information of all elements including their influences on selection of the optimal park location. Six planning standards (parameters) are applied namely: open spaces, population density, park accessibility, the distances between the chosen park and the residential, rivers and swage pump stations. The methodology of this study was established to achieve simulations where the decision weights associated with all six parameters employed for modeling (choosing recreational parking site). The results reveal that the developed procedure can provide a best recreational parking location. Furthermore, the developed produce can reduce the cost and time spending on finding a proper park location compared with the traditional producer that currently used.
Alauldeen A. Rahman, Jasim A.A. AL-Baghdadi, Ala H. Elaiwi and Falah Abed, 2017. Selection of a Best Recreational Park Location in a City Using GIS Technique. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 12: 8426-8435.