The Location of Undesirable Facilities

Emanuel Melachrinoudis ()
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Emanuel Melachrinoudis: Northeastern University

Chapter Chapter 10 in Foundations of Location Analysis, 2011, pp 207-239 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Undesirable facilities are those facilities that have adverse effects on people or the environment. They generate some form of pollution, nuisance, potential health hazard, or danger to nearby residents; they also may harm nearby ecosystems. Examples are incinerators, landfills or sewage plants, airports, stadia, repositories of hazardous wastes, nuclear or chemical plants, prisons, and military installations. Although they provide some disservice to nearby residents, these facilities are necessary to society. In addition, there is often some travel involved to and from these facilities and an associated transportation cost that increases with distance from the population, which in turn suggests that they should be placed away but not very far away. The terms semi-obnoxious and semi-desirable have also been used for some of these facilities, but the undesirable features (perceived or real) of these facilities dominate the desirable ones. Since the analytical models used for locating these facilities do not change much with their degree of undesirability, as Erkut and Neuman (1989) suggested, we will use the term undesirable for all of them.

Keywords: Feasible Region; Voronoi Diagram; Short Path Distance; Voronoi Polygon; Classical Contribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7572-0_10

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