Optimal Location of Discretionary Service Facilities

Locating Discretionary Service Facilities, II: Maximizing Market Size, Minimizing Inconvenience

Discretionary service facilities are providers of products and/or services that are purchased by customers who are traveling on otherwise preplanned trips such as the daily commute. Optimum location of such facilities requires them to be at or near points in the transportation etwork having sizable flows of different potential customers. N. Fouska (1988) and 0. Berman, R. Larson and N. Fouska (...

Optimal Location of Facilities with Limited Capacity

Abstract At the facility which has limited capacity, users can not always be provided service, but be passed around. In the situation that the total number of servers is constant, more facilities reduce servers of individual facility. Therefore though the distance from users to facility decreases, the loss probability increases. We consider the number of facilities and their location which mini...

optimal location of passive defense facilities through game theory

in this article, a game in which terrorists and the state government are the players is considered. on the one hand, terrorists try to attack major cities and impose damages (loss in the state’s point of view), on the other hand, the state tries to reduce damages through establishing the optimal number of facilities that are also optimally located. furthermore, allocating of fixed facilities in...

Supporting the Search for the Optimal Location of Facilities

Solving the problem of locating services in a given context requires a methematical abstraction so that its complexity can be managed by means of an iterative search through context simulations. Keeping the interface between planners and the model within planners’ knowledge domain is achieved by an interactive tool that encourages exploration and comparison among different possible solutions. A...

Maximal service area problem for optimal siting of emergency facilities