Zeitschrift für Fernerkundung und GIS

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GIS Based Assessment of Urban Facilities and Utilities Planning: A Case of Gida Ayana Woreda, Oromia Region, Ethiopia

lemesa tolera hirpha

GIS Based Assessment in Urban Facilities and Utilities Planning: A Case of Gida Ayanaworeda, Oromia Region, Ethiopia. This research is mainly concerned on GIS based assessment in urban facilities and utilities planning in Gida Ayana town, Oromia Region, Ethiopia. Application of GIS technology in urban facilities and utilities planning has recently absorbed attention and has a power of assessing already installed urban physical settings in harmony with demographic, spatial, local development plan and service demand directives. Keeping in the view of importance of GIS in urban planning, the study was conducted in Gida Ayana town where road transportation, water supply and consumption for domestics use and accessibility to fixed line telephone are characterized by shortfalls. The general objectives of the study is to create geo database for urban transport facilities, water supply lines and fixed telephone lines utilities, and to show their spatial arrangement by employing GIS technology. Specifically, the study is designed to create GIS database for road transportation network that enable to evaluate the existing network system in the study area, to show applications of GIS in urban utilities planning, to evaluate accessibility of water supply distribution using GIS in the study area and to analyze the spatial arrangement of fixed line telephone accessibility.