Compactness for Regionalization and its Application in Land-Use Planning

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Ph.D candidate in Environmental Science, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran

2 Dept. of Environmental Science, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran

3 Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Golestan University, Gorgan, Iran

4 Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Golestan University, Gorgan, Iran

Abstract

One of the most important and appealing subjects discussed and applied in many
geographical studies is compactness. This is a geometrical notion and has applications far
beyond the scope of its definition. Besides the importance of measuring compactness in a
single object, its study is significant in real-world applications, where the integration of
items or objects in conjunction with each other is considered. Regionalization is the term
commonly used for this integrative perspective. Although there are several methods to
quantify compactness, this study tries to illustrate the simple way for its calculation. Hence,
this study is devised to apply with some modifications one of the methods that has been
suggested for calculating single object compactness in regionalization domain. We attempt
to propose a clear definition and to evaluate the computer implementation of the
compactness in a land-use planning study. The ant colony algorithm as a heuristic approach
was applied to measure compactness in an innovative manner and to incorporate this
concept into a land-use planning case. Results show that this method can be useful in
achieving compactness in land-use planning.

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Environmental Resources Research
Volume 5, Issue 2
July 2017
Pages 184-196

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