Facility location for large-scale emergencies

Rongbing Huang (), Seokjin Kim and Mozart Menezes

Annals of Operations Research, 2010, vol. 181, issue 1, 286 pages

Abstract: In the p-center problem, it is assumed that the facility located at a node responds to demands originating from the node. This assumption is suitable for emergency and health care services. However, it is not valid for large-scale emergencies where most of facilities in a whole city may become functionless. Consequently, residents in some areas cannot rely on their nearest facilities. These observations lead to the development of a variation of the p-center problem with an additional assumption that the facility at a node fails to respond to demands from the node. We use dynamic programming approach for the location on a path network and further develop an efficient algorithm for optimal locations on a general network. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010

Keywords: Location; Network; p-center; Large-scale emergence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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