Multi-service facility location models

Multi-service facility location models

0.00 Avg rating0 Votes
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: ,
Abstract:

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 p-median based location–allocation models that trade off the fixed costs of providing services and opening facilities with the travel costs of three societal groups. We observe that some mixes of single- and multi-service facilities can provide efficient service systems without unduly compromising the accessibility needs of individual groups.

Reviews

Required fields are marked *. Your email address will not be published.