THE EVALUATION OF TRANSPORT ACCESSIBILITY OF SHCHUCHINSK-BOROVOYE RESORT AREA USING GEOINFORMATION SYSTEMS

Abstract

The aim of the article is to evaluate the transport accessibility of the Shchuchinsk-Borovoye resort area within the territory of Kazakhstan and border areas of the Russian Federation. The aim of the study is to demonstrate the accessibility of the resort area from cities and populated areas, using information provision and to identify areas with varying spatial accessibility. The primary method of evaluation involves a series of operations in the “ArcGIS.10'' system (including kriging, the method of direct transport distance, and interpolation of data using the inverse distance weighting method). The results are presented as a series of maps illustrating the accessibility of resort areas from cities and populated areas, using isolines and coloring techniques. The transport accessibility of the resort area is identified and evaluated, highlighting the importance of transport infrastructure in the development of the tourism cluster. The main conclusion of the research focuses on the calculated indicators of accessibility and the density of the transport network in the region.

Keywords

• transport accessibility
• density of transport network
• thickness of transport network
• method of isolines
• method of kriging
• direct transport distance
• transport route