Laboratory Exercise 12

Bradley Import Center

Background:

In the Fall of 197, the MetroHartford Millennium leaders proposed to make Bradley Airport and international import center. The proposal would make the regionís airport into a major international gateway for flowers, foods, pharmaceuticals, and other perishables being flown into Bradley. Initial plans call for the construction of a $9.8 million air cargo and federal inspection center near the airport.

Problem Definition:

You have been hired by the State of Connecticut to find a suitable site for the Import Center. In order to screen candidate sites, the following selection criteria have been formulated. The site should:

Be within 1 mile of the airport runways
Be located on ìbarren landî.
Be greater than 5 acres in are but less than 12 acres.
Be within a mile of a ìmajorî highway.

Solution Procedure:

Data required. For the Adjacent Towns of Windsor Locks, Windsor, east Granby and Suffield , you will need:

A land use map.
A map of railroads.
A map of roads.

Data Acquisition:

Go to the MAGIC site.

MAGIC - Geo-spatial data - for each town

Down load ArcInfo type data (zipped files) for the three maps indicated in 1) above to your folder on the F drive: F:/GIS/GISCLASS/(Your Name)

Unzip the files

Using Import71, Convert the three files to files readable by ArcView (feature data source files). Do all of your work in your folder on the F: drive.

Data Preparation:

Open ArcView

For each Town, add a new theme "Landuse" with data from the Land Use file prepared in 2d.

Using the Legend Editor, change:

The Legend Type to Unique Values
The Values field to Av_legend
The color scheme to Bountiful Harvest
Customize the Bountiful Harvest legend so that:
Land Barren = Red
Forest-Conf = Dark Green
Forest-Decid = Light Green
Deep Water = Dark Blue
Shallow Water = Light Blue
Road Major = White
Road Pavement = White
Add new theme Roads - choose Black as the color
Add new theme Railroads - Choose Red as the color
Merge the four individual maps in one regional map.

Using the five criteria listed in the problem definition, make a flow chart (cartographic model) of the steps you will use to solve the problem.

Problem Redefinition:

The State of Connecticut has asked you to consider new criteria, and compare the results from the initial study: The site should:

Be within 3 mile of the airport runways
Be located on ìbarren landî.
Be greater than 5 acres but less than 10
Be within a 2 miles of a ìmajorî highway.

Final Report:

Produce a "professional" report (Cover sheet, table of contents, numbered pages, etc ).

Cover Sheet (Title of Project, Your Name, Date, Signature)
Table of Contents
Introduction (Background, Introduce the Problem)
Discussion (How you did things)
Results
Figures (Put all figures, Tables, etc. in this section and refer to them in text).
Appendices
Print or list the names of the files in your folder on F drive. (place in Appendix)
Include Cartographic Model. (Place in Figures)
Final Land Use, Roads, and Railroad maps. (Place in Figures)

For original problem and problem redefinition:

Final site selection maps, prepared using principles from Lab 9 (In Figures).
Select one parcel for the site and write a short paragraph as to why you chose that particular site for the Access Station. (In Results)