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Document Type : Article In Journal 
Document Title :
APPLICATION OF GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN EMERGENCY PLANNING : A Case Study of the Saudi Red Crescent Society Centers in the City of Jeddah
رسالة ماجستير
 
Subject : MSc Thesis 
Document Language : English 
Abstract : Emagency services, which commonly include Ambulance, Fire and Police savices ha ve geogra phical di stribution characteristics of request of service on one hand, and a system of facilitie s deployed to respond to that request. on the other. The purpose of thi s thesis is to discu," and analy!.c the application (11' Geogra phica l Inforrmti on Systems (GIS ) in emergenL'y planning, with a specifiC interest on amhulance se rvices that are commonl y known in Saudi Arabia as Saudi Red Crescent Society Ccnters (SRCSCs) , For thi s purpose, the existing service proviSion VIcrc n;Hnlned hy classifying the incidents locati ons for the mOlllh of Rajah in the yea r 1421 , and then evaluating the existing L'e lllers catc hmcnt areas The fnllll\ving analytical tool was to compare the inCidents clas sificati on with thc previous me ntioned evaluali on, The present research has proved that there IS a deficiency in the spatial provision of SRCSC:, in Jcddalt cily in four ca legorics, populariun within service llmir, hllilding number, and units numbL' r, Accordingly, a particular study area was sekcted in the Cit y of Jcddah. Iss ues at mi cro le ve l were to proposc a codi ng sys tem lor th e study arca, as well as identifying the uplimum route 10 the in ci dent location. This optimum route wa.' compared to the actual rOUlc being used by the ambulance vehicle, This stud y at IhlS micro IevL'i has proved that the optimum route identified hy Areview GIS hy 277, of the tim" of th e actual amh!Jlancc veh icle rou te, In hoth analytical maLTo and micro, GIS was very powerful to input. update and manipulate the data continuously 
ISSN : 1319-0989 
Journal Name : Arts and Humanities Journal 
Volume : 1 
Issue Number : 1 
Publishing Year : 1424 AH
2003 AD 
Article Type : Article 
Added Date : Sunday, October 11, 2009 

Researchers

Researcher Name (Arabic)Researcher Name (English)Researcher TypeDr GradeEmail
محمد عبدالرحمن قطانKattan, Mohammad AbdulRahmanResearcherMaster 

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