Using geographic information systems technology to map nutrition delivery routes, with implications for use in biosecurity measures

Citation

Runge T, Kedward S, Hemingway K, Szabo D, and Lowe D. 2021. Using geographic information systems technology to map nutrition delivery routes, with implications for use in biosecurity measures. In Brooks M, Koutsos E, and Henry B Eds. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Conference on Zoo and Wildlife Nutrition, Zoo and Wildlife Nutrition Foundation and AZA Nutrition Advisory Group, Virtual.

Abstract

San Diego Zoo Wildlife Nutrition team, responsible for preparing and delivering diet items for the entire animal collection, makes 60+ delivery stops throughout zoo grounds on a daily basis. These stops include areas both in and around wildlife care kitchens and in barns and dry feed storage rooms. Many of these delivery drop off sites necessitate detailed instructions particular to that drop site: specific key or proximity disk required for entrance, vehicle accessibility, adherence to explicit biosecurity measures, etc. To streamline the availability of information required for daily and weekly deliveries, all delivery routes were comprehensively mapped utilizing ArcGIS software.

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