Article ID: | iaor20042500 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 123 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 223 |
End Page Number: | 240 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2003 |
Journal: | Annals of Operations Research |
Authors: | Hodgson M. John, Suzuki Tsutomu |
The multi-service facility (MSF) concept proposes the co-location of a range of human services under a single roof. Thus, for example, services for preschoolers, teens, and seniors might be co-located within a joint facility. MSFs are a response to economies of scale; co-location reduces the monetary costs of providing a variety of services. Yet, the spatial distributions of different societal groups are different within a city – an MSF system will not provide optimum geographical accessibility to individual groups. We introduce two