Project Proposal

Project Motivation

Singapore has been facing a serious issue of low birth rates and changing demographics in our housing estates in recent years. As a result, the government has decided to merge pairs of schools so as to ensure that all schools still have an adequate number of students and a vibrant learning experience with a good range of educational programmes and co-curricular activities.

Through this project, we want to find out how these mergers have affected the accessibility of schools in Singapore for students. We hope to be able to provide meaningful insights on the effects of these mergers so as to provide actionable suggestions for future planning of land use.

Project Objectives

Our objective is to analyse how school mergers have affected the equity of access to schools in Singapore.

We plan to conduct this by comparing the locations of schools and their accessibility before and after merger, while considering the master plan.

Our 2 research questions are as follows:

  1. Are there enough schools in the area to meet demands in different regions of Singapore?

    • Which areas have less schools and hence are less accessible which may potentially affect the choices of housing?

  2. How has the merging and closure of schools affected accessibility of schools to people?

Data

We used datasets from Data.gov.sg and Department of Statistics Singapore. Refer to the ‘Data’ tab for more information.

Scope of Work

The project will comprise of, but not limited to the followings steps:

  • Selection of project areas of schools in Singapore and years that mergers took place.

  • Collection, extraction, integration, transformation and wrangling of data of schools in Singapore.

  • Designing and building GIS model and database to map the accessibility of schools in Singapore.

  • Preparing report of findings.

  • Performing site suitability analysis by integrating GIS and multi-criteria evaluation methods.

  • Preparing site suitability analysis report including detailed discussion of the analysing method used.

  • Preparing poster and project webpage.

Project Schedule

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