Defining the Service Area for Each School in Changchun Metropolitan Area Based on Gis Technology

Education in china or other countries is a big problem to families and society. Especially, the PRC leaders and education officials emphasized the education rights should be commonly shared in 2005, this issue had been becoming an urgent problem which was waiting for being solved (Chuanyou Bao, 2007). However, this issue has not been solved successfully. In the early study, the researchers put more attentions on the regime of the education and seldom spent much time on studying how to define the service area for each school. To define the service area for each school properly, there are two aspects which should be considered: one is the school’s ability of enrolling students and the other is how many students that the district can produce. As the primary study phase for this issue, this paper just takes Chaoyang district as an example. In the research, the Manhattan distance is used to measure the distance between students and schools. Then use the supply-demand model from operational research theory to define the relationship between students and schools. The result shows that this method is very useful to define the school’s service area. The students in the service area have the equal opportunity to go to school. Besides, this method changes the conventional way to define school service area.