LOCATIONAL PROBLEMS AND PREFERENCES IN PRESCHOOL CHILD CARE*

With the increased use of formal child care, the number of child care alternatives has grown. The locational problems and preferences of University of Connecticut employees who use formal child care for children under age 6 are examined because an on-site program is available as one option. Difficulty finding care at a convenient location is related to residential location. Preference for worksite care decreases with increasing commuting distance. Variations in reported locational preferences by commuting zone are consistent with the notion of locating services within the activity spaces of the users. As commuting distance increases, worksite day care represents a greater displacement from the activity spaces of the child and possibly of other family members.     

GROUP HOME LOCATION AND HOST NEIGHBORHOOD ATTRIBUTES: AN ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS

This paper investigates the characteristics of areas with numerous group homes (residential care facilities) that cater to a variety of user groups. An overview of patterns of locational concentration precedes the results of an ecological analysis for the Minor Planning Districts of the City of Toronto. The pattern of ecological correlates among the three group home types analyzed supports results obtained elsewhere, but cautions against inferring ecological associations identified for one sort of facility to other facility types, The conclusion questions the suitability of present areas of locational concentration of group homes as host environments.     

Privacy and Ethics in Undergraduate GIS Curricula

The development of location-aware technologies, such as smartphones, raises serious questions regarding locational privacy and the ethical use of geographic data. The degree to which these concepts are taught in undergraduate geographic information science (GISci) courses is unknown. A survey of GISci educators shows that issues of privacy and ethics are important in a GISci education. However, a large proportion of GISci educators are not concerned about the loss of locational privacy and many do not devote classes to the subject. Those not teaching the subject cite lack of course time and the need for more information.     

Measuring the need for primary health care: an index of relative disadvantage

The prime objective of primary health care provision is the maintenance or improvement of the population's health. The equitable distribution of resources is paramount to this and measures of disadvantage are implemented to assess differential levels of need as a basis for calculating deprivation payments according to general practitioner workload. Despite research that highlights the benefits of measures of social disadvantage, indices have not been used to fundamentally shape resource allocation for health authorities. This paper uses the results from a patient survey into utilization behaviour to define and model the determinants of the need for health care based on components of relative need and accessibility. Proxy indicators are derived from routine sources of data to create an Index of Relative Disadvantage (IRD). A sensitivity analysis confirms the robustness of the index and shows that—although the index employs a wider range of variables than most previous deprivation indices—there is no gross data redundancy. Simplified versions of the index are also explored and evaluated. The IRD developed here is closely correlated with other indices of disadvantage, but its greater breadth and more logical construction mean that it may be more likely to be a more widely applicable instrument for health care planning of resource allocation.     

港澳地区对中国内地直接投资的区位选择及其空间扩散

对港澳地区在中国内地直接投资的空间分布及其空间转移做了上分析，表明了港澳地区对中国内地的直接投资趋向于沿海地区和与这这有特殊社会文化联系的区位，同时更有向中西部和北部转移的趋势，决定港澳地区对中国内地投资空间模式和转移态势的因素是经济规模，经济增长速率，劳动力因素，经济开放度，与沿海的经济距离等。     

The historical geography of prostitution in Perth,Western Australia

This paper charts major changes in the locational distribution of female prostitution in the Perth metropolitan area during the twentieth century, and aims to explain why these changes took place. The study confirmed that there is a positive relationship between changes to law enforcement policy and changes to the spatial distribution of the sex industry. Factors that affect law enforcement policy (and thus the location of prostitution) include the social stigma associated with prostitution, economic forces that compete for urban space and political pressures to contain and occasionally relocate the trade. At the same time, and despite a number of major spatial redistributions caused by changes to law enforcement policy in Perth, the central city area has remained the sex industry's geographical focus throughout the twentieth century. This strong preference to be centrally located is related to the sex industry's primary locational imperatives, being access to major client catchments and availability of appropriate operational premises. The paper argues that a complex set of endogenous and exogenous factors contribute to the locational behaviour of prostitution, and that these forces and their associated dynamics need to be understood in order to successfully integrate the sex industry into an equitable and orderly town planning process.     

Spatial Accessibility to Health Care Facilities in Suhum District,Ghana

To improve geographical accessibility to health facilities in rural Ghana, it has been recommended that additional health facilities be built. Resource constraints make this recommendation infeasible. Using location-allocation models, this paper demonstrates that in the Suhum District of Ghana substantial improvements in accessibility can be achieved with better locational choices and without additional facilities. Also, additional facilities will produce little improvement in accessibility if location is not explicitly considered. The paper demonstrates the utility of location-allocation models for improving accessibility to services in the Third World.     

中国外资星级宾馆区位研究

本文研究了外资星级宾馆的地理分布与区位。整体而言,外资星级饭店集聚在少数省区和城市,尤其是珠三角、长三角以及京津冀地区。基于服务业外资区位理论,本文采用负二项回归模型检验了追随国外客户、市场规模、集聚经济、对外经济联系及基础设施等对外资星级宾馆区位选择的影响。统计分析表明外资星级宾馆在区位选择上,倾向于追随国外客户在中国布局,同时通过与国内宾馆的共聚而获得成本节约与竞争力提升。城市的对外联系强化涉外市场潜力,进一步吸引外资星级宾馆;而交通通讯基础设施强化宾馆业集聚经济,引导外资星级宾馆的区位选择。     

FROM HAMBURGER ALLEY TO HEDGEROSE HEIGHTS: TOWARD A MODEL OF RESTAURANT LOCATION DYNAMICS

The distribution of restaurants is the product of a complex interaction of traditional and non-traditional location factors. Much of the obvious locational disorder may be reduced by categorizing restaurants into those which feed the body, meals consumed for nourishment, and those which feed the soul, meals planned for aesthetic or social reasons. Accessibility, locational ambience, and demographic character of the population served are the primary locational considerations, although a variety of perceptual, psychological, and spatial elements are significant for particular types of restaurants and situations in Atlanta, GA.     

基于改进潜能模型的就医空间可达性度量和缺医地区判断——以江苏省如东县为例

潜能模型广泛应用于就医空间可达性评价,现有模型综合了医疗设施服务能力、居民点人口数量、医疗设施与居民点之间的出行阻抗。在此基础上通过考虑"医疗设施不同等级规模对居民就医选择行为的影响"对模型进行修正。结果表明,改进的潜能模型能够更为合理地评价就医空间可达性,准确揭示居民实际所能获取的医疗资源,结合医疗资源配置相关标准,则能有效判定缺医地区,为政府相关部门规划决策提供依据。     

Location-based anonymization: comparison and evaluation of the Voronoi-based aggregation system

Hospitals and health care organizations collect large amounts of detailed health care data that is in high demand by researchers. Thus, the possessors of such data are in need of methods that allow for this data to be released without compromising the confidentiality of the individuals to whom it pertains. As the geographic aspect of this data is becoming increasingly relevant for research being conducted, it is important for an anonymization process to pay due attention to the geographic attributes of such data. In this paper, a novel system for health care data anonymization is presented. At the core of the system is the aggregation of an initial regionalization guided by the use of a Voronoi diagram. We conduct a comparison with another location-based system of anonymization, GeoLeader. We show that our system is capable of producing results of a comparable quality with a much faster running time.     

深圳高新电子信息企业空间格局演化及其影响因素

基于深圳市2007—2017年电子信息类高新技术企业名录数据,通过全局墨兰指数、核密度分析与热点分析研究深圳市高新电子信息企业的空间集聚与演化特征,运用空间回归模型分析其影响因素及变化。结果表明：在研究时段内,高新电子信息企业全局集聚强度进一步升高,其分布经历了“集聚-分散-集聚”的变化过程;企业空间集聚由“双核共振”转变为“三足鼎立”格局,并形成“高新园区型”、“老工业区型”和“龙头企业型”三种集聚模式;园区政策、产业集聚一直是深圳电子信息技企业分布的关键影响因子,交通和区位等基础因素影响相对偏弱;影响因素的变化显示出产业集聚、对外交通因子的影响显著提升,知识技术因子的影响开始显现。     

区位通达性与在京外资企业的区位选择

利用北京市第二次基本单位普查资料,以邮政编码区为空间单元,采用泊松回归模型探讨了在京外资企业的城市内区位选择及其影响因素。研究涵盖了2001年全部的在京外资企业,模型估计中有效样本240个。外资企业具有显著的向中心城区集聚的分布态势,相对于制造业而言,服务业外资企业更为集中。分析结果表明,区位的通达性和城市结构对在京外资企业区位选择具有显著的影响。接近高速公路、高等院校、外国使馆以及工业园区等对外资企业具有显著吸引作用,离城市中心、火车站和机场距离过远则不利于吸引各类外资企业。研究也发现,制造业外资企业和服务业外资企业以及投资来源地不同的外资企业,在进行城市内部区位选择时存在显著的差异。     

区位政策与区域经济发展

本文从经济区位论的角度,研究了区位政策的目标和手段、以及它们对区域经济发展的作用。主要提出以下观点：①各级政府或决策部门可通过一定的区位政策,如区位投资环境的改善、区位补助金和区位倾斜政策等来诱导或限制个人或企业的经济活动行为的空间选择,最终实现国土的有效、均衡和可持续的发展;②区位政策对区域经济发展的作用主要表现在可以使利益空间的界限扩大或缩小,加速或缓减产业的空间集中或分散,刺激新产业区位生长点的形成,以及缩小区域经济差异等。     

Total locational surplus for facility users distributed continuously along a network

This paper proposes an appropriate index for evaluating the degree to which facilities are desirable to their users under realistic assumptions. We derive an analytical expression for the index and discuss its calculation. Throughout this paper, we make the following three assumptions: (1) the distance from a user to a facility is measured by the shortest path, (2) facility users are continuously distributed along a network, and (3) the choice behavior of the facility users follows the Huff model. Under the third assumption, the index, called the ‘total locational surplus,’ enables us to conduct evaluations based on the concept of consumer surplus in microeconomics. We argue that this index is considered the most reliable among possible indices. First, we express the total locational surplus under our three assumptions as a definite integral. We then express a part of the integrand in the definite integral as an infinite series of exponential functions, which allows us to derive the infinite series expression of the definite integral. The infinite series expression enables us to calculate an approximate value for the total locational surplus using the first several terms of the series. We describe the computational procedure for calculating this approximation and evaluate its time complexity. We also utilize the procedure to evaluate the spatial configuration of some shopping centers in the northern part of Japan.     

A locational error model for spatial features

A locational error model for spatial features in vector-based geographical information systems (GIS) is proposed in this paper. Using error in points as the fundamental building block, a stochastic model is constructed to analyse point, line, and polygon errors within a unified framework, a departure from current practices which treat errors in point and line separately. The proposed model gives, as a special case, the epsilon band model a true probabilistic meaning. Moreover, the model can also be employed to derive accuracy standards and cartographic estimates in GIS.     

中国农村工业发展：一个综合区位分析框架

本整合现代经济地理学、新制度主义和演化经济学、规范性区位分析三种理论,提出了一个包括制度、技术、市场、区位资源禀赋等区位因子并将交易成本和生产成本相结合的综合区位分析框架。运用框架,对中国农村工业的发生与发展、宏观分布与微观布局等和出了一个系统解释。     

Planning hierarchical hospital service areas for maternal care using a network optimization approach: A case study in Hubei,China

Improving maternal health is one of the Sustainable Development Goals. Hospital service areas (HSAs), which contain most hospitalization behaviors at the local scale, are crucial for health care planning. However, little attention has been given to HSAs for maternal care and the hierarchy structure. Considering Hubei, central China, as a case study, this study aims to fill these gaps by developing a method for delineating hierarchical HSAs for maternal care using a network optimization approach. The approach is driven by actual patient flow data and has an explicit objective to maximize the modularity. It also establishes the hierarchical structure of maternal care HSAs, which is fundamental for the planning of hierarchical maternal care and referral systems. In our case study, 45 secondary HSAs and 22 tertiary HSAs are delineated to achieve maximal modularity. The HSAs perform well in terms of indices such as the Localization Index and Market Share Index. Furthermore, there is a complementary relationship between secondary and tertiary hospitals, which suggests the need for referral system planning. This study can provide evidence for the validity of the HSA and the planning of maternal care HSAs in China. It also provides transferable methods for planning hierarchical HSAs in other developing countries.     

THE CHANGING LOCATION OF PHYSICIAN OFFICES IN BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL,ILLINOIS: 1870–1988

Three locational patterns of physician offices during the last 120 years are identified in the Bloomington-Normal metropolitan area. Offices first clustered within the CBD at dispersed sites, then concentrated at two sites within the CBD. Most recently, the CBD cluster has essentially dispersed while others have emerged. These stages were responses to changing medical technology and to evolution of the urban area that affected site and area attractiveness, patient access, and need to be near other physicians and medical facilities. The loss of the CBD cluster may not be a unique feature of small SMSAs such as Bloomington-Normal.     

贵州省旅游业区位重构研究

基于王瑛、王铮(2000)提出的旅游业区位模型,在考察了贵州省旅游景观分布后,本文修正了他们的模型,并划分了旅游业区位带:风景名胜带;奇异风光带;特色资源带;差异突出的文化与自然风光带。旅游业的这种空间机构类似杜能模型,但决不是杜能现象而是新地理现象。本文强调,贵州省以舞阳河为代表的喀斯特地貌景观属于青年期,在形态结构上不同于云南以石林为代表的壮年期地貌和广西的以桂林为代表的老年期地貌,是一种新的旅游地貌资源,需要突出资源特点开展营销。根据新的区位模型,本文讨论了贵州省旅游业区位,并且提出3条建议:通过建设高速公路将原来行程9小时的路程缩为6小时的;以舞阳河风景区为中心组织特色资源区;建设航空港发展一些资源条件好的地区为旅游亚中心。