השוואת שיטות

	Two-Step Floating Catchment Area	Isochrone Analysis
תחום	Human Geography	Human Geography
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	2003	1959
הוגה השיטה	Wei Luo & Fahui Wang	Edsger W. Dijkstra (shortest-path foundation)
סוג	Spatial accessibility measure for competition over constrained services	Computation of travel-time contours reachable from a location on a network
מקור מכונן	Luo, W., & Wang, F. (2003). Measures of spatial accessibility to health care in a GIS environment: synthesis and a case study in the Chicago region. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 30(6), 865–884.	Dijkstra, E. W. (1959). A note on two problems in connexion with graphs. Numerische Mathematik, 1(1), 269–271.
כינויים	2SFCA, Floating Catchment Area Method, Enhanced Two-Step Floating Catchment Area, 2SFCA Accessibility	Travel-Time Analysis, Isochrone Mapping, Service Area Analysis, Travel-Time Contours
קשורות	4	4
תקציר	The two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) method measures spatial accessibility to constrained services — most famously physicians and hospitals — by accounting not only for how close supply is but for how many other people are competing for it. Introduced by Wei Luo and Fahui Wang in 2003, it works in two passes: first computing a supply-to-demand ratio at every service location, then summing those ratios over all services within reach of each population site. The result is a single accessibility score per location that captures both proximity and crowding, and it has become the standard measure of access to healthcare and other capacity-limited services.	Isochrone analysis computes the area reachable from a location within a given travel time, drawing contour lines — isochrones — that enclose everywhere you can get to in, say, 15, 30, or 45 minutes. It rests on the single-source shortest-path problem solved by Dijkstra's 1959 algorithm: from an origin, the travel time to every node of a routable network is found, thresholded, and converted into a polygon of reachable space. Isochrones turn an abstract travel-time field into an intuitive map of reach, and underpin service-area planning, accessibility measurement, and location analysis.