Indiana Geographic Information Council March 1 st, 2011, Muncie, IN Presented by: Jarrod Doucette, Indraneel Kumar, and Andrey Zhalnin FRAMEWORK FOR A REGIONAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM

PRESENTATION OVERVIEW Project Overview Project Partners Why a Regional Decision Maker Subject Areas (online demo) Demographics, Transportation, Occupation and Industry Clusters, and LULC Tools Custom Region Summary Variable Weighting Tool Pros & Cons Web or Desktop API choices Future Work

Originated from Local Decision Maker Project FNR, PCRD, Sea Grant, C4E PROJECT PARTNERS

WHY A REGIONAL DECISION MAKER? Think Globally, Act Locally Regionalism Environmental, Economic, Social issues do not stop at man-made borders Research based outreach projects including: Occupation and Industry Clusters Transportation LTM USGS Think Regionally Succeed Locally ………..…..………..Tehachapi News, An emerging paradigm is-

TECHNOLOGY ArcGIS Server 10 Web apps using FLEX API ArcSDE Database Why these choices?

DESKTOP OR SERVER? Qualitative and quantitative information can be mapped together Increase or decrease is qualitative whereas population size for 2009 is quantitative information Desktop mapping can do the multiple attribute mapping

DESKTOP OR SERVER? Multiple attribute mapping through ArcGIS Server could be challenging ArcGIS 10 (Arc Map) has a map service publishing toolbar Analyze tool can flag the problem areas, selected features from a layer, viewable at all scales Preview tool can show how it will look on the web and how much time it will take to display Multiple attribute mapping is not supported You need to create a separate layer/feature class on Arcade for each of the qualitative classification We are not using MSD but the cleaned and optimized MXDs- ArcGIS Server Manager

SUBJECT AREAS Demographics Transportation Occupation and Industry Clusters Land Use Land Cover forecasts

DEMOGRAPHICS County-based Place-based Annual Population Estimates, Census American Community Survey, Decennial Census

DEMOGRAPHICS Population loss/gains Patterns of population change Rural areas are losing Metropolitan areas- central cores are losing, first suburbs are losing, suburbs, and some exurbs are gaining

NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION ATLAS DATABASE (NTAD) Annual update Boundaries- MPOs, urbanized areas, military bases, parks Facilities- Airports, runways, water ports, Amtrak stations, transit stations Intermodals by modes Networks- NHPN, railways, navigable waterways, transit link (all types) Other- Alternative fuel stations, automatic traffic recorders, railways-highways crossing Non attainment areas by criteria pollutants

FREIGHT ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK Movement of goods AADT AADTT Forecasting Incorporates commodity flow surveys, border crossing data Modeled values of speed, delays, VCR, etc.

OCCUPATION AND INDUSTRY CLUSTERS Total Employment, Dot-density

OCCUPATION AND INDUSTRY CLUSTERS Knowledge-Based Occupations, Dot-density Engineering; Mathematics, Statistics, & Data; Natural Sciences & Environment; Health Care & Medical Science; etc.

LULC CHANGE

TOOLS Part of modeling component of spatial decision support system Based on geoprocessing tools from AGS Each tool answers a specific question

REGION SUMMARY TOOL Summarizes data based on user-defined area Example: employment occupational clusters for each county in US The tool will sum employment for all counties that are selected by user interactively

REGION SUMMARY TOOL - THE MODEL PROD DEMO TOOL SITE DEV DEMO TOOL SITE

REGION SUMMARY TOOL - MODEL

REGION SUMMARY TOOL - SCREENSHOTS

VARIABLE WEIGHTING TOOL Overlays several maps into one based on weights assigned by user. Can take vector and raster maps as inputs All maps have equal weight by default (value of “1”) Can use any weighting scale verbal, e.g. “poor-excellent”, “low-high”; Numeric, e.g. “-5 to +5”, “0 to 5” These models can be theme specific (e.g. environmental only) or can combine data from different areas (e.g. economic, demographics, land use, etc.) Useful when looking at different scenarios of development or prioritizing areas for development

VARIABLE WEIGHTING TOOL – THE MODEL

TIPS AND TRICKS Build model to answer a specific question: good decision support system should be intuitive and simple to use Have detailed metadata or map description available for advanced GIS users Keep models simple to improve processing time, preprocess maps if needed Use relative paths when creating models in Model Builder Get ArcSDE database well organized (naming, metadata) Have metadata or description readily available for user to see along with the map Easy to get data online

FUTURE What does a Regional Decision Maker look like? How do the pieces we just preview fit in?

CONCEPT National Decision Maker Portal Architecture

MOVING FORWARD Decision trees Develop more complex models to answer more complex questions. a survey-style questionnaire that helps user answer specific questions regarding planning For example, identify development strategies based on current environmental and economic characteristics of AOI and development preferences. The questionnaire can use “Yes-No” and/or multiple-choice format questions. Can provide answer in a verbal and/or spatial (mapped) form

CONCLUSION Adobe Flex API with ArcGIS Server Presented data from research projects Variety of ways for user to view and interface with data

QUESTIONS? Thanks to … PCRD FNR Sea Grant Jarrod Doucette – Forestry and Natural Resources – Indraneel Kumar – Purdue Center for Regional Development – Andrey Zhalnin – Forestry and Natural Resources – Bryan Pijanowski – Forestry and Natural Resources Angela Archer – Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant