Howman, Mark John (2016) An investigation into the means of developing and distributing a custom GIS road network integrated with business, social and regulatory rules to coal seam gas industry stakeholders. Coursework Masters thesis, University of Southern Queensland. (Unpublished)
Abstract
Large parts of regional Queensland are experiencing substantial growth as a result of the coal seam gas industry. Four major CSG projects are carrying out significant infrastructure development across a wide geographical area. One inevitable result of these projects is an increase in regional traffic levels and road use due to construction and operational activities. In order to manage the traffic impact on these regional communities, each of the projects are obligated to address these issues through a series of formal and informal policies. A key challenge is how to gather, consolidate and distribute the various business, social and regulatory rules to a wide range of impacted stakeholders. This paper takes a multi-staged approach in addressing this, by firstly collating the rules, then by establishing a sustainable means of applying, storing and maintaining them using GIS technologies as an instrument. It does this by conflating public and private roads into a custom road network, before integrating the collated rules into a prototype solution. Preference and impendence is applied to the road network using various components of ESRI’s ArcGIS Network Analyst. The result is the creation and testing of a prototype that is successful on a small scale, which incorporates a large proportion of the rules gathered. However, there are numerous challenges in extending this solution across the large geographical area in which the Queensland CSG industry operates. These key challenges include: addressing the low quality public road data, and the lack of a clear owner to maintain such a solution. If these obstacles can be overcome, many aspects of the prototype solution created in this research could be leveraged in creating a viable, large scale solution for the CSG industry.
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| Item Type: | Thesis (Non-Research) (Coursework Masters) |
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| Item Status: | Live Archive |
| Additional Information: | Current UniSQ staff and students can request access to this thesis. Please email research.repository@unisq.edu.au with a subject line of SEAR thesis request and provide: Name of the thesis requested and Your name and UniSQ email address. |
| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Current - Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences - No Department (1 Jul 2013 -) |
| Supervisors: | McDougall, Kevin |
| Qualification: | Master Spatial Science and Technology (Geographical Information Systems) |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Jul 2026 04:38 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Jul 2026 04:38 |
| URI: | https://sear.unisq.edu.au/id/eprint/53225 |
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