 The Obnoxious Facilities Planar p-Median Problem with Variable SizesPawel Kalczynski and Zvi Drezner Omega, 2022, vol. 111, issue C Abstract: The obnoxious facility location problem is to locate facilities that have a negative impact on communities (being “obnoxious”) and being farther from communities is preferred. For example, noisy or polluting factories, garbage dumps, airports, should not be located close to communities. Such facilities also serve the communities, otherwise they are not needed. Our goal is to minimize the system’s operating cost subject to a minimum distance requirement from communities. The multiple obnoxious facility problem is usually defined as locating several facilities maximizing the minimum distance between facilities and communities. However, not all facilities have the same impact on communities. In this paper we assume that the size of a facility depends on the volume of service provided by it. Larger garbage dumps, for example, should be located farther away from communities. The problem is extremely non-convex and available non-linear solvers are not performing well. We designed a special starting solution for non-linear solvers that provides better objective values, in a shorter run time. Keywords: Location; Obnoxious Facilities; Continuous Location; Voronoi Diagrams (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jomega:v:111:y:2022:i:c:s0305048322000470 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2022.102639 Access Statistics for this article Omega is currently edited by B. Lev More articles in Omega from Elsevier |
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