Equitable location of facilities in a region with probabilistic barriers to travel

Mehdi Amiri-Aref, Reza Zanjirani Farahani, Mike Hewitt and Walid Klibi

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2019, vol. 127, issue C, 66-85

Abstract: This paper studies a planar multi-facility location problem that considers the presence of a restricted region with probabilistic position. This problem seeks to locate facilities in an equitable manner by minimizing the maximum expected distance traveled from demand points to access a facility, as well as distances between locations of new facilities. We propose a heuristic to solve this problem that combines a bounding approach with a split-divide-and-conquer strategy. Computational study shows that this heuristic produces high-quality solutions in reasonable run-times. We report findings from a case-study involving locating police facilities in Kingston-Upon-Thames.

Keywords: Facility location; Fairness criterion; Probabilistic line barrier; Relaxation-based heuristic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2019.04.010

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