Paper #755

Título:

Location models in the public sector

Autores:

Vladimir Marianov y Daniel Serra

Fecha:

Mayo 2004

Resumen:

The past four decades have witnessed an explosive growth in the field of networkbased facility location modeling. This is not at all surprising since location policy is one of the most profitable areas of applied systems analysis in regional science and ample theoretical and applied challenges are offered. Location-allocation models seek the location of facilities and/or services (e.g., schools, hospitals, and warehouses) so as to optimize one or several objectives generally related to the efficiency of the system or to the allocation of resources. This paper concerns the location of facilities or services in discrete space or networks, that are related to the public sector, such as emergency services (ambulances, fire stations, and police units), school systems and postal facilities. The paper is structured as follows: first, we will focus on public facility location models that use some type of coverage criterion, with special emphasis in emergency services. The second section will examine models based on the P-Median problem and some of the issues faced by planners when implementing this formulation in real world locational decisions. Finally, the last section will examine new trends in public sector facility location modeling.

Palabras clave:

Location analysis, public facilities, covering models

Códigos JEL:

C61, J80

Área de investigación:

Economía de la Empresa y Organización Industrial

Publicado en:

in Z. Drezner and H. Hamacher (eds.). New York: Springer, 2002, 119-144.
Con el título:
Facility Location: Applications and Theory

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