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The term spatial analysis along networks refers to a set of methods or techniques for analyzing events that occur along networks (Okabe and Sugihara 2012). The events include two types: events that occur exactly on a network (e.g., traffic accidents on an expressway), termed on-network events, and those that occur alongside networks (e.g., stores facing a street), termed alongside-network events. The alongside-network events include not only examples such as that above but also those that can be assigned to a network according to a certain rule (e.g., a large factory is assigned to its access point on a road). On-network events and alongside-network events are subsumed under along-network events. Therefore, spatial analysis along networks may be specified as spatial analysis on networks or spatial analysis...
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Okabe, A. (2017). Spatial Analysis Along Networks. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_1648
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