ANALYSIS OF STREET NETWORKS USING QUANTITATIVE VALUE INDICATING THE ADVANTAGE OF POSITION IN CITY

Abstract

A purpose of this study is showing the effectiveness of quantitative value for estimating the advantage of position in the city. This advantage is an important factor for locating any facilities, and owes much to the accessibility made by street network. On this point an useful idex can be obtained from numerical caliculation using data of pattern of network, and this index explains generally the advantage of position. This paper describes usefulness of this index and characteristic of seven object cities which are seats of the prefectural government in Kyushu. Particularly it is noticeable and heuristic that this index extracted the center of each city.