Explain the role that geographic information systems have come to play in transportation planning and key reasons as to why this has happened.
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Almost all network data are organized within some type of Geographic
Information System (GIS). A GIS is a spatially-oriented database management
system containing location and attribute information for manmade and natural
features and supporting related queries with these features.
There are three reasons that explain the popularity of GIS for
transportation planning:
First, a GIS is scale-able, meaning it may support analysis for a wide
range of geographic scales, ranging from the macroscopic level of a state or
region to the microscopic level of a single neighborhood.
Second, a GIS contains information used by other professions, enabling
planners to access data that already have been collected for other purposes.
Third, a GIS offers strong spatial analytical capabilities that make use of
the point, line, and area features contained within the GIS.
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