Emergency Response Times and Area Coverage Statistics

Emergency Response Figures for Westfield, MA

            Shown below are two sets of data, one showing the area serviced by the current 3 fire station layout compared to the new proposed 2 fire station layout.  These figure are in the time brackets of 0 to 4 minutes, 4 to 6 minutes, and 6 to 8 minutes.  Overall with only a small amount of change it does not look like changing to a 2 fire house layout would have a significant effect.

Comments:

            This analysis does only account for a little over 95% of the town of Westfield which likely means this small percentage is closer to other surrounding fire stations and is serviced by these stations.  This analysis also does not take into account traffic data or changing conditions so these service areas are not fixed and could change with the change in conditions.  The difference between the 2 and 3 fire station layouts is minimal and I do not believe that there would be a significant change in response times in Westfield if this station is closed.

This link shows you the full report.

WSU Commuter Statistics

Statistics Regarding Westfield State University Commuters

There are currently 2926 commuters at Westfield State University.  This breaks down to 1755 undergraduate students,  who make up the majority of this group.  There are 714 students attending graduate programs.  Lastly there are 466 students  that attend the university for continuing education purposes.

TYPE	Miles	Minutes
Continuing Education	19	30
Graduate Students	21	32
Undergraduate Students	39	50

Comments:

This analysis was done using the data for commuters in the New England New York area, some of the addresses were not used due to the position of the point being in California or North Carolina so these individuals are obviously not commuting to school.  Other addresses that could not be used in this analysis were P.O. box addresses as the address locator could not geocode them.  Other faults in this analysis include that it was only run taking one day into consideration and no traffic data was taken into consideration.               
 This link   shows the complete report.     

Massachusetts Community College Proximity

This map shows the 20 mile proximity of the 19 community colleges in Massachusetts in 3 different ways.  The blue shows a general 20 mile buffer around each of the 19 community colleges.  The red areas are the areas of Massachusetts that are outside of this 20 mile are and were produced through the use of the euclidean distance tool, I left the areas within the 20 mile limit hollow (uncolored) so you could see the buffer layer.  The last part of this analysis was done through use of the network analyst extension and use of a service area analysis.  This result shows a 10 mile area in dark green and a 20 mile area in bright green.  These three analyses are then stacked so you can see the differences between the 3 methods.

Mt. Tom Wind Turbine Visibility

This assignment pertained to the placement of a wind turbine atop Mt. Tom and the related degrees of visibility it would produce. This link will bring you to the ArcGIS online web app I have created to show this map.  This shows the 25,50,75,and 100 percent viewsheds on top of one another in different colors so you can see the differences.
                                This is a .JPG  image of the poster I made to represent this data

This is the Google earth view of the 100% (400 ft) viewshed

Network Analyst Tutorials

Write Up

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Mt. Tom Windmill Project

This document shows my work in progress project of choosing suitable sites to put a windmill or possibly multiple on top of Mt. Tom in Massachusetts. this document highlights the data layers needed to run this analysis as well as the tools that make it possible.  An analysis of the Project and needed data is also contained within this document and when finished it will also show the steps I took to complete this analysis.

Suitable Wind farm Sites in Adams and Pittsfield MA

This map shows two different towns that of Pittsfield and Adams Ma.  The highlighted parcels are the ones which my analysis has shown would be suitable for building of this wind farm project. Though this map shows you the sites that meet the criteria that I was looking at other factor such as proximity to built up areas or roads are not taken into account so further analysis would be necessary to actually build this development.

This link shows my ArcGIS web app of the selection for Adams and this link shows the web application of Pittsfield.

Adams and Pittsfield Google Earth view