A difficult and challenging decision facing policy makers is the allocation of goods that generate externalities. It is well known that markets forces alone will lead to inefficient outcomes. Of particular interest in modern industrial societies is the task of choosing locations for siting noxious facilities such as waste treatment facilities, landfills, or nuclear waste repositories. Such faci...

The location set covering problem continues to be an important and challenging spatial optimization problem. The range of practical planning applications underscores its importance, spanning fire station siting, warning siren positioning, security monitoring and nature reserve design, to name but a few. It is challenging on a number of fronts. First, it can be difficult to solve for medium to l...

INTRODUCTION Singapore's rapidly ageing population and chronic disease burden at public hospital specialist clinics herald a silver tsunami. In Singapore, "right siting" aims to manage stable chronic disease in primary care at a lower cost. To improve the quality of rheumatology care, we created shared care between rheumatologist and family physician to reduce hospital visits. METHODS Clinica...

Successful development of wind farms relies on the optimal siting turbines to maximize power capacity under stochastic conditions and wake losses caused by neighboring turbines. This paper presents a novel method quickly generate approximate layouts support infrastructure design decisions. We model quadratic integer formulation discretized layout problem with an undirected graph that succinctly...

Wildfire smoke and other particulate matter can substantially inhibit solar photovoltaic (PV) generation production. While PV facilities may not be located in areas with a high fire risk, from wildfires travel hundreds of kilometers impacting large number facilities. This paper proposes geospatial wildfire capacity model to quantify the anticipated temporal reduction due smoke. A case study usi...

How do mitigation and benefits measures affect public acceptance for siting different kinds of potentially hazardous facilities? What kinds of benefits measures are seen as most (or least) appropriate for different kinds of facilities? This study used a nationwide telephone survey consisting of 1,234 interviews with randomly selected respondents to test for the effects of packages of safety and...

Air pollution continues to be a global public health threat, and the expanding availability of small, low-cost air sensors has led to increased interest in both personal and crowd-sourced air monitoring. However, to date, few low-cost air monitoring networks have been developed with the scientific rigor or continuity needed to conduct public health surveillance and inform policy. In Imperial Co...

There exists a need for blast resistant yet portable buildings to protect personnel temporarily assigned duties within explosively hazardous areas. Blast resistant portable buildings (BRPBs) are a valuable asset for protection of temporarily assigned personnel involved in activities located near potential explosion sites. Portable. Stackable and modular. Blast designed and ductile. Several comp...

The community assessment model (CAM) for odor dispersion is a tool to assist in the siting of swine production facilities. CAM considers the size and type of a swine production system, local historical weather conditions, and odor control implementation. It predicts the number of hours of exposure to various levels of odor, by month, for each receptor in a given community. A follow‐up survey of...

The increasing rate of energy consumption, the depletion of conventional energy sources and the environmental degradation caused has led to thorough research on Renewable Energy Sources (RES), which have been seen as a sustainable solution to climatic change. However, RES installation has a considerable environmental impact, which should be taken into consideration. The present study deals with...