Article ID: | iaor19991612 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 102 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 295 |
End Page Number: | 301 |
Publication Date: | Oct 1997 |
Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
Authors: | Carrizosa Emilio, Romero-Morales Dolores, Conde Eduardo |
Keywords: | obnoxious facilities |
In the last decades there has been an increasing interest in environmental topics. This interest has been reflected in modeling the location of obnoxious facilities, as shown by the number of important papers published in this field. However, a very common drawback of the existing literature is that, as soon as environmental aspects are taken into account, economical considerations (e.g. transportation costs) are ignored, leading to models with dubious practical interest. In this paper we take into account both the environmental impact and the transportation costs caused by the location of an obnoxious facility, and propose as a solution method the well-known BSSS, with a new bounding scheme which exploits the structure of the problem.