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.

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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.

Westfield Suitable Site Mapping

this map shows a site suitability analysis for Westfield.  this map shows the 25 different suitable location within the bounds of Westfield.  This analysis has yielded many more results than the similar suitability analysis I did for Easthampton which only yielded one suitable location.  This analysis was done by a group that I was a part of.

Easthampton Suitable Locations

This is a map showing the one suitable site that was returned from my site analysis.  this site is suitable to build a new Bio-Tech park on.  This analysis unlike the similar one I did for Westfield which led to many suitable locations this analysis shows Easthampton has only one location.

Tuition Mapping

This map is showing the various cities and towns that are within Connecticut that Qualify for tuition break for WSU.  the towns highlighted in green are the ones that qualify for the tuition break while all those in purple do not qualify.

This is an outline of three different buildings On the Westfield State University campus


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