Gis Based Analysis of The location of filling Stations in Metropolitan Kano against The Physical Planning Standards

摘要

This paper a nalysed the location of filling stations in Kano Metropolis against the physical planning standards set by Department of Petroleum Resource, DPR (2007) and Kano Urban Planning and Development Agency, KNUPDA (2013). Names and street addresses of the filling stations were obtained from the Department Petroleum Resource (DPR) Kano Office. Global positioning System Garmin 76X GPS was used to capture the location of the filling station. The quickbird imagery, street map, and boundary map were obtained from the Kano State Ministry of Land and Physical planning. The data were imported to Arcmap environment of ArcGIS 10, integrated and georefrenced to the same coordinate system. All the analyses were performed in the Arcmap environment using spatial statistics, spatial analyst and proximity tools available in the software. The findings revealed that there 214 filling station located along the 43 roads in the study a rea, of which 69% are owned by independent marketers, 26% owned by Major Marketers and 5% owned by the NNPC. Most of the station satisfied the minimum requirement of 15 metre distance from the road (96%). Equally 98% of the filling stations met the minimum distance of 100 meter from the health care facilities. However many station had not meet the criteria of 400 meter minimum distance to other stations where located on same road side and when not separated by any road or street. The research finally conclu des that regulatory agencies need to look into the issue and take appropriate measures.