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Location-Allocation

Location-allocation models decide where to place a set of facilities and simultaneously assign demand points to them so as to optimize an objective such as total travel cost, worst-case distance, or population covered. Rooted in the operations-research work of Cooper (1963) and Hakimi (1964) and central to network GIS, they answer questions like where to site warehouses, hospitals, fire stations, or schools to best serve a spatially distributed population.

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Location-Allocation Models
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / spatial-analysis
  • Cooper, L. (1963). Location-allocation problems. Operations Research, 11(3), 331–343. · DOI 10.1287/opre.11.3.331
  • Hakimi, S. L. (1964). Optimum locations of switching centers and the absolute centers and medians of a graph. Operations Research, 12(3), 450–459. · DOI 10.1287/opre.12.3.450
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