Emergency Facilities in Ahmednagar City Using GIS And RS

Case Study of Ahmednagar City

Thigale Sushil and Jadhav Mahadev

thigale_sushil111@yahoo.com and a_madhav@yahoo.co.in

Abstract: - Geographical Information System (GIS) is a tool for integration,

manipulation, analysis and display of Spatial and Non-Spatial data. Remote Sensing
provide a Spatial Temporal data. GIS is applied in Transportation network,
calculating travel time, travel distance, Disaster management. For the planning and
management of city area require huge of Natural and man-made data. Handling for
this huge data GIS it self prove. In the emergency or in Disaster management and
mitigation GIS play as an important role. In the present study Google image is used
and the Ward map is use as a base map for the study. This study is concern with the
emergency facilities as Hospitals, Fire Stations and Police Station. With using the
GPS points and road network travel time and travel distance from the facility is
marked. On the travel distance and travel time the buffer are created.

Introduction: - The mission of the Fire services, Police services, and Medical
services is to protect life and natural resources, from fire, accident and other
emergencies.
There are three types of emergencies.
1. Police- Providing community safety and acting to reduce crime against
persons and property.
2. Fire- Providing firefighters to deal with fire, rescue and reduce loss.
3. Medical – Providing ambulance and staff to deal with medical
emergencies.
According to Starindia datasheet the 1, 53,200 of accident were in the year of 1980,
and 2, 82,600 in the year of 1990. Death of the people in road accident was 24,000
and 54,100 respectively. According to government of India data sheets fire accident
were 41,419 in the year of 2000 and 48,760 in the year of 2003. Deaths of persons in
fire accident were 74,091 and 93,074 respectively.
 Road accident in India Fire accident in India

Year No. of Road Persons Killed Year No. of Fire Persons killed
Accident Accident
1990 2,82,600 54,100 1990 29,537 56,386
1995 3,51,999 70,781
1995 38,049 69,890
2000 3,91,449 78,911
2003 4,06,726 85,998 2000 41,419 74,091
2003 48,760 93,074
Table No. 1 Reference of www.starindia.com Table No. 2 Reference of www.starindia.com

Role of GIS: - GIS is a technology that integrates geographic features with tabular
data to assess and better understand real-world problems. Geographical Information
System (GIS) is a tool which has been employed for integration of spatial and non-
spatial data, designed to support capture, management, manipulation, analysis and
display of spatially referenced data for solving complex planning and management
problems.

Objective:-This study is dealing with the study of Emergency Services in

Ahmednagar City using GIS techniques, for proper decision making about utility of
those facility. For the present study following aims and objective decided.
1. Identifying locations of Fire stations, Hospitals, and Police stations.
2. Delineating the service area of Fire stations, Police stations, and
Hospitals using vector analysis with GIS environment.
3. Delineating service area with respect to travel time and using distance.

Study Area:-Ahmednagar city were selected for study. The study area is situated
on Deccan plateau of Maharashtra. It is leeward side of Sahyadri mountain ranges.
Location of Ahmednagar city is 120km far from Pune city and 246km from Bombay.
Latitudinal extension of study area is 19°03’28”N to 19°06’24”N and longitudinal
extension is 74°43’51”E to 74°44’43”E. Covering approximately 48 Sq.km. There are
three major sub-regions those are Kedgaon, Bhingar, and Savedi.

Data and Methodology:-

Data:-
• Location of all medical facilities, fire stations and police stations. (GPS
locations)
• Detail Road network map. (Google Earth map)
• Survey of India Maps with Scale of 1:50,000. (47 I / 12, 47 I / 16)
• Town planner map Ahmednagar city.

Methodology:-
Database preparation

DATABASE GENERATION

Non spatial Data Spatial Data

Secondary data Primary data

Secondary Data

Toposheets GCP’s
Corporation Data

Georeferencing

Town Planner Map

Google Image

Import
Vectorisation

Data Generation

Analysis

Out Put
 Length of road
Travel Time = * 60
Speed (km/hour)

Data Analysis

Data analysis

Creation of Network
Dataset

Generating Travel Generating Distance

Time for Analysis

Identifying Service Area Identifying Service Area

Based on 1, 2, 3, 4 km.
Based on 10, 15, 20 minutes. Distance

Out Put
The Toposheets were Georeferenced in the ERDAS 9.1 with using Geographical
Coordinate System, with reference to Asia. On the Georeferened toposheet the ward
map is georeferened and also the google image is Georeferenced. The digitization of
road network is done on google image. The location point of Hospital, Fire stations,
Police Stations is collected from the GPS and after they are converted into a .SHP
format and imported in Arc GIS.

Result:-
Result Base on Travel Time & Travel Distance
2. Travel Time Base on Distance
A) Travel Time: - The service area showing the buffer of 5, 10, and 15 minutes
travel time. Roughly 1.5 kilometer distance far from the facility covered in the first 5
minutes travel time distance,3 kilometer distance covered in the 10 minutes and the
4.5 to 5 kilometer distance covered in the travel time of 15 minutes

B) Travel Distance: - Last three showing the buffer of service area as considering
distance from facility. Distance in the figure was in kilometers. Figure of 5.4 showing
the service area of Fire stations on the 1, 2 and 3 km respectively. in the figure 5.5
showing the service area of Hospitals and figure 5.6 showing the service area of
Police stations with respect of 1, 2 and 3 kilometer travel distance.

Conclusion: -
 There where the three fire stations available in Ahmednagar city. The location
of fire stations namely Kedgaon, Bhingar and Corporation as considering the travel
distance not of the 50% area covered by city. There for there is requirement of more
fire stations in Ahmednagar city. The locations of fire stations are Savedi and part of
Aurangabad road there is requirement of fire stations.
As concern the Hospital facility the location of accident Hospitals in city, they
mostly found in the Part of Savedi or Manmad Highway. In the part of Aurangabad
Road, and Solapur road nowhere hospitals found. There for there is requirement of
hospitals
Police stations are basic need of region there were requirement of Police
stations in the each major part of city.

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