Article ID: | iaor2000679 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 6 |
Issue: | 1/4 |
Start Page Number: | 109 |
End Page Number: | 120 |
Publication Date: | May 1998 |
Journal: | Location Science |
Authors: | Juel Henrik, Brimberg Jack |
Keywords: | obnoxious facilities |
Most facilities in today's technological society may be classified as semi-desirable. That is, the facility provides a benefit or service to society, while adversely affecting the quality of life or social values in a number of possible ways. The paper proposes a location model for a new semi-desirable facility that accounts for the service costs by a standard minisum objective with arbitrary travel distance function. The social costs are imputed by specifying around each demand point or population center a convex forbidden region, also defined by an arbitrary distance metric, in which the new facility may not be located. A general solution algorithm is suggested, and the methodology is applied to circular forbidden regions and special travel distance functions.