Mapping Need: Geospatial Analysis for Optimizing Park Access

This poster focuses on the geospatial analysis supporting the broader park-access optimization project. It highlights how measures of need are built and why those upstream choices matter when they become inputs to a decision model.

Contribution: supported the connection between geospatial need assessment and downstream optimization decisions.

Method: used spatially informed measures of access and need to examine how model inputs shape recommendations for park planning.

Result and impact: helped communicate that optimization quality depends heavily on how access and need are represented before the solver is ever run.

Recommended citation: Fletcher, A., Griffin, G. L., Goto, D. N., White, D., Sabogal De La Pava, M., Jahan Beikloo, M., and Tucker, E. L. (2026). "Mapping Need: Geospatial Analysis for Optimizing Park Access." CalGIS 2026.