Evaluating shopping streets–Local cooperation between existing stores and new stores

There are many cases where it is difficult to refurbish vacant stores in some area simultaneously. In this cases, what order should we refurbish that vacant stores? We propose new index for this situation from the point of view of local cooperation between existing stores and new stores.

In this article, we focus on restaurants and give priority to these vacant stores.

First of all, we find out actual street network from existing stores and streets. This actual street network is not so call shopping streets but “VITAL” shopping street.

Later, we calculate betweenness centrality of vital street network when people visit each store in the area. (High rated nodes shown in red).

Following procedure is the step to calculate the index.

1. If new store is located on vital street network, we calculate betweenness centrality of the location of the store.
2. If new store is located on outside of vital street network, we calculate distance between the location and the closest existing store.

Following matrix show the local cooperation ranking of stores in this area.