Active Projects

Assessing Transport Implications of Healthcare Facility Reconfiguration using GIS

Transport accessibility to healthcare facilities is a major issue in the United Kingdom and has been recently demonstrated by the shift away from providing healthcare in acute hospitals to ‘care closer to home’. World Health Organization (WHO) considers accessibility to healthcare facilities as an essential right for all people.

Project Facts

Start date: February 2009
End date: July 2012
Investigators Professor Andrew Price; Professor Steve Ison; Dr. Mohammed Quddus
Staff Employed Omid Titidezh, BSc, MsC, Full time PhD Student
Status Active

Project Partners

  • NHS Leicestershire County and Rutland Primary Care Trust
  • NHS Leicester City PCT
  • The Prince’s Foundation
  • Department of Health- Estates and Facilities
  • HUDU (London Healthy Urban Development Unit)

Project Partners

HaCIRIC
Department of Civil and Building Engineering
Loughborough University
Ashby Road
Loughborough
Leicestershire
LE11 3TU
T: +44 (0) 15 0922 2627 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting +44 (0) 15 0922 2627 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
E: o.titidezh@lboro.ac.uk

Objectives of the project:

  • To explore accessibility and transport issues associated with the UK healthcare facilities.
  • To identify important factors affecting accessibility of healthcare facilities and the data requirements.
  • To evaluate the potential of GIS and statistical methods to find a proper method. 
  • To develop an accessibility model of healthcare facilities using statistical methods including fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.
  • To develop recommendations for assessing accessibility by exploring different scenarios.