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Corridor location: the multi-gateway shortest path model

Maria Scaparra, Richard Church (church@geog.ucsb.edu) and F. Medrano

Journal of Geographical Systems, 2014, vol. 16, issue 3, 287-309

Abstract: The problem of corridor location can be found in a number of fields including power transmission, highways, and pipelines. It involves the placement of a corridor or rights-of-way that traverses a landscape starting at an origin and ending at a destination. Since most systems are subject to environmental review, it is important to generate competitive, but different alternatives. This paper addresses the problem of generating efficient, spatially different alternatives to the corridor location problem. We discuss the weaknesses in current models and propose a new approach which is designed to overcome many of these problems. We present an application of this model to a real landscape and compare the results to past work. Overall, the new model called the multi-gateway shortest path problem can generate a wide variety of efficient alignments, which eclipse what could be generated by past work. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014

Keywords: Corridor location; Shortest path algorithms; Alternative generation; GIS; Spatial optimization; C44; Q40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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