Factor |
Weight of Importance
for Analysis |
Reason |
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Distance to Exisiting
Cell Sites |
0.23 |
Existing
cell sites is not only important for the overall suitability, but it is
also very important when compared to factors such as slope.There
should be no possibiliy to include an area close to an existing cell site
because it has a suitable slope. |
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Land use |
0.23 |
Similar
to cell sites, land use is also more important than other factors.There
should be no ability to trade off on land use either. |
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Population |
0.23 |
Population
is not as important to the overall suitability as Distance to Existing
Cell Sites, but it there should be no trade off either.There
is no point in building a PCS antenna site in an area with a good slope
if there are few people there. |
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Distance to Highways |
0.07 |
It is
benificial to have a PCS antenna near highways, but by no means is it crucial.If
a site is found to be suitable, but it is not near a highway, it should
still be used. |
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Slope |
0.07 |
Slope
is a problem easily solved by increasing the budget.If
a site is suitable, it should not be stalled because of slope issues. |
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Elevation |
0.17 |
Elevation
is not very important to the overall suitability, it is however important
from a network engineering stand point. So it has been given a higher rank
for tradeoff than slope and highways. |
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