Transcript Site Analysis of Proposed L.A. County NFL Stadiums

Zachary Zabel
UP206A
March 19, 2012
Facility: $1 billion (all privately funded) 68,000 seat stadium
expandable to 78,000 for major events
Location: On the site of the current West Hall of the LA
Convention Center, adjacent to the STAPLES Center
Travel: Access to over 20 freeway interchanges, utilization of
STAPLES Center parking model to limit congestion
Facility:
Facility:
Location:75,000 seat stadium (all privately funded), built into a
hillside
Travel: to reduce construction costs and materials
Location: City of Industry 20 miles east of downtown L.A.
Travel: “Replicating model of other NFL stadiums by locating
outside the congestion of a metropolitan area”
• Kernel Density of existing football stadium seats
•Kernel Density of Metrolink commuter rail
stations
•Euclidean Distance to Metro Rail
•Feature to Raster of population over 67 years old
•Built a network dataset to perform service areas
around facilities (stadium sites)
•Travel times derived from dividing distance of
streets by speed limits for L.A. County
•Calculated from a maximum noise level of 140dB
(Derived from a 137dB recording at the 2006 NFC
Championship in Seattle, the NFL’s loudest
stadium)
•Sustained exposure at 85dB+ results in
permanent hearing loss, at 100dB serious damage
can occur in 15 minutes
• Farmers Field in high proximity to existing stadiums
•Farmers Field very high in proximity to Metro Rail, L.A. Stadium low
•Both stadiums “moderate” in access to MetroLink
•Hotspot Analysis: Both sites “moderately suitable”, far more suitable
locations: Montebello, parts of the San Fernando Valley
•Network Analysis: Farmers Field within 30min of most major L.A. County
population centers, L.A. Stadium up to an hour from the Westside, Long
Beach, and San Fernando Valley
•Farmers Field will expose a far greater amount of residents to disruptive
levels of noise
• Both projects are massive investments for the returns provided
•Externalities such as traffic and noise will be limited to a few days a year
•Stadiums will draw visitors from all over Southern California, not just L.A.
County
•Network Analysis does not take into account that Los Angeles Stadium will
better serve the Inland Empire (San Bernardino and Riverside Counties) and
Orange County
•The importance of access to transit may be low, NFL gameday travelers are
more likely to drive
Modeling
Measurement Analysis (Noise Dispersion, Proximity
Rasters, Euclidean Distance)
Custom Shapefile Creation/Original Data (Site Parcels)
Extracting information from bufffer (dB and population)
Charts and images
Hotspot Analysis (Spatial Analyst)
Network Analysis (Network Analyst)
Inset Map
Buffering
Geoprocessing (Clipping)
Geocoding (Current stadiums)
References:
http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2010/06/16/usa-usa-nascar-nfl-may-be-louder-than-the-vuvuzela/
http://www.farmersfield.com/
http://www.losangelesfootballstadium.com/
http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-distance.htm
http://www.worldstadiums.com/north_america/countries/united_states/california.shtml
Data Sources:
Lab 1, 2 Prepared Files
LA Locator from Lab 4
American FactFinder
Metro Developer (http://developer.metro.net/introduction/gis-data/download-gis-data/)
MetroLink (http://www.metrolinktrains.com/agency/page/title/facts)
UCLA Mapshare
Presentation Image Sources:
http://farmersfield.com/
http://www.losangelesfootballstadium.com/