484 / 2019-02-28 12:28:47

An Open-source Tool for School Catchment Planning

school catchment,Greedy Algorithm,integer linear programming,Scenario Planning,Resource optimization

全体主题 > Urban Planning & Modeling

School catchment has significant impacts on many urban planning and socio-economic aspects such as social infrastructure accessibility, livability, community health and wellbeing, and housing affordability. It is a challenging task for governments to strategically plan school catchments with a vision that not only supports the current school capacities and enrolment demands but also stays aligned with future population growth trends and education investment strategies. Inspired by the Enrolment Simulation Application (ESA) created by SGS Economics and Planning, this work investigates and implements two solutions (greedy algorithm and integer linear programming) for this problem, then compares and discusses their performance over various planning scenarios.