Transport accessibility and efficiency of PHC location in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu

V. Saravanabavan 1, *, C Vinothini 2 and RS SujaRose 3

1 Department of Geography, School of Human and Environmental Sciences, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong -793022, Meghalaya, India.
2 Department of Geography, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University,Madurai- 625021, Tamil Nadu, India.
3 Environmental Remote Sensing and Cartography, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamilnadu 624021, India.
 
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International Journal of Science and Research Archive, 2024, 11(02), 1342–1351.
Article DOI: 10.30574/ijsra.2024.11.2.0605
 
Publication history: 
Received on 28 February 2024; revised on 06 April 2024; accepted on 09 April 2024
 
Abstract: 
Transportation is an essential feature of modern economics. In general terms, as an economy grows and develops, it becomes more dependent on its transport sector. The efficient location of any PHC center mainly depends on the network pattern. The study area, Kanniyakumari, is the southernmost district of Tamil Nadu. Kanyakumari District lies between 77°15’ and 77°36’ of eastern longitude and 8°03’ and 8°35’ of northern longitude. The study area has 83 nodes and 120 edges in the transport network system. The main objectives of the paper are to analyze the variation in the degree of connectivity, accessibility, and nodal efficiency of the network pattern and to assess the relationship between road network structure and the location of the PHC center. (Primary Health Care). The present study depends on secondary data. The secondary sources were collected from various transport offices and institutions. Cartography mapping and buffer analysis are used by GIS software. The quantitative research approaches in network analysis were measures to determine the spatial structure, associate number, route development, nodal efficiency, and accessibility of a given PHC location. The Shimbels shortest path matrix was used to identify the health centrality of a node in the network, and its minimum accessibility was found for each PHC center. The detour index was computed based on knowing the route for existing network systems. The present study aims to understand the characteristics of the road transport network in relation to the structural location of the PHC of connectivity, accessibility, and route efficiency in Kanniyakumari district.
 
Keywords: 
PHC; Accessibility; Shimbels; Detour; GIS; Buffer analysis
 
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