MACURISA2018

Building a Public Safety Services Investment Tool.  Choosing how to allocate not just building dollars, but where and how to locate programs and capital assets across multiple locations. Using geographic principles such as multivariate and hotspot analyses, the City of Philadelphia and Geodecisions, Inc. have created a tool that helps better define where to place investment in municipal public safety services and how to improve the use of those services.
The presentation will also highlight the multi-criteria Decisions Support System that was developed using Web App builder for ArcGIS and ESRI JavaScript API. The application uses hosted feature services data that covers the different criteria needed for evaluating public safety funds allocation. The widget that was developed for the project enables the users to give different weighting for each criteria and run the decision model to get an instant rank for fund allocation.