A critical assessment of the assumptions and social objectives of models for locating central facilities
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The gap
There is a need for a critical assessment of the assumptions and social objectives of models for locating central facilities. The geographical literature does not appear to have produced a critical assessment of the assumptions and social o
Evidence profile
Sourced from the future work and stated challenges and stated research gap of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 1970 and 1987, spanning 3 journals. Those papers have been cited 232 times in total.
Research trend
Established — well-defined area with open sub-problems.
Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps
- A facility location problem with clients' preference orderings (1987) · Regional Science and Urban Economics · cited 63× · doi
Geographical 48, 22-34. Cornuejols, G., M.L. Fisher and L.A. Wolsey, n.d., The uncapacitated location and P.B. Mirchandani, eds., Discrete in: R.L. Francis New York) forthcoming. facility location problem, theory (Wiley-Interscience, Erlenkotter, D., 1978, A dual-based procedure for uncapacitated facility location, Operations Research 26, 992- 1009. Erlenkotter, D. and G. Leonardi, 1985, Facility location with spatially interactive travel behavior, Sistemi Urbani 7, 2941. P. and D. Peeters, Hanjoul, 1985, Comparison of two dual-based procedures for solving the p-median problem, European Hansen, P. and L. Kaufman, K.B. Haley, ed., Operational
generalfuture workKeywords: location facility uncapacitated problem erlenkotter dual based geographical cornuejols fisher wolsey mirchandani discrete francis york - Central Facilities Location under an Investment Constraint (1970) · Geographical Analysis · cited 83× · doi
The location of facilities is critical in areas where public transportation is lacking or where the level of living is substandard. The problem is to locate facilities so as to minimize the average distance or time that the users take to reach the facilities. The method of adjusting the resource constraint has one important drawback: a lack of sensitivity or fine tuning.
generalstated challengesevidence 5/5Keywords: location facilities critical areas public transportation lacking level - Optimizing Access to Public Services: A Review of Problems, Models and Methods of Locating Central Facilities (1978) · Progress in Human Geography · cited 86× · doi
There is a need for a critical assessment of the assumptions and social objectives of models for locating central facilities. The geographical literature does not appear to have produced a critical assessment of the assumptions and social objectives of such models within the wider context of spatial interaction and location theory.
generalstated research gapevidence 5/5Keywords: there need critical assessment assumptions social objectives models
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