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GIS datatbase for Chennai city roads and strategies for improvement
Database Development for Chennai City
The road network of Chennai City is digitised using PC ArcInfo. The source of the map is survey of land record map. This map is drawn based on Survey of India map and its scale is 1:33,000. The road network of Chennai City is digitised by considering all the roads in the map. Total of nine spatial locations were identified as control points to project the map in to its real world co-ordinates. The concept of geographic database, is to structure the data according to certain number of logical rules. The geographic database of Chennai City is conceived and elaborated under the GIS Arc/Info Software. The Structure of database is shown in the figure below.  The minimum road width for the development of database is taken as 12m width. The reason of choosing 12m width is, as per detailed development plan, only roads with more than 12m width is considered as Public Roads. Hence three levels of road network is taken as follows:
Identification of Critical Links After developing the road network database for Chennai City, Chepauk area is taken as study area for the analysis. The Chepauk comes under the planning division of 11, unit no.2 in Detailed Development plan prepared by Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority. The approximate extent of the land is 47 hectare. A map showing the database of the study area is shown below.  The critical link among the selected stretch is identified based on model generated by Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) technique. The composite index is found by using the model and AHP technique is used to generate scores for the factors that are considered for analysis. The composite index for various are generated by the model and the lowest model value indicates the critical link of the selected study area. Also, the positive and negative impact of the factors towards the objective of the work is taken in to account in deriving the model value. Critical links are identified by considering the following factors.
For the present study, the spatial- AHP technique (integrating the GIS database in the AHP frame work) is applied to find the relative importance weight (RIW) for each decision factor. The composite index for each road is determined by aggregating the relative importance weights at each level of the hierarchy. The RIWs are normlsed eigenvectors corresponding to the maximum eigenvalues of the pairwise comparison matrices constructed at each level of the decision hierachy. The RIW assigned to each hierarchy element is deremined by normalising the eigenvector of decision matrix.  Eigenvector values are eatimated by multiplaying all the elements in a row and taking the root of the product, where in is the number of row elements. Normailsation of the eigen vector is accomplished by dividing each eigen vector element by the sum of the eigen vector elements of the decision matrix. After finding the relative importance of various factors, a model is developed for finding a composite index for various roads which assists in identifying the critical links. The scores for each factor on scale of 9 are as follows :
The above model is then developed and fed in the PC ArcInfo. The Model equation is as follows: 5.5Ri1 + 1.89Ri2 + 1.57Ri3 + 0.68Ri4 + 0.35 Ri5 ( Eq.1) Where Ri1-5 - standard value for jth parameter for route i i - S elected rotes from 1 to n The index value for various stretches is obtained by above formula. The values are stored in “TABLES” and the positive and negative impact of decision factors is taken in to account. Then the critical links is identified based on the index value in such a way that lower the index value the link is more critical.
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