Paper #220

Título:

On optimal location with treshold requirements

Autores:

Miquel Carreras y Daniel Serra

Fecha:

Marzo 1997

Resumen:

The optimal location of services is one of the most important factors that affects service quality in terms of consumer access. On the other hand, services in general need to have a minimum catchment area so as to be efficient. In this paper a model is presented that locates the maximum number of services that can coexist in a given region without having losses, taking into account that they need a minimum catchment area to exist. The objective is to minimize average distance to the population. The formulation presented belongs to the class of discrete P--median--like models. A tabu heuristic method is presented to solve the problem. Finally, the model is applied to the location of pharmacies in a rural region of Spain.

Palabras clave:

Discrete facility location, threshold, tabu search

Códigos JEL:

C61, R12, R53

Área de investigación:

Microeconomía

Número serie CRES:

3

Publicado en:

Socio Economic Planning Sciences, 33, 2, (1999)

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