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Title:	On optimal location with treshold requirements
Author:	Carreras, Miquel; Serra, Daniel
Other authors:	Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa
Abstract:	The optimal location of services is one of the most important factors that affects service quality in terms of consumer access. On theother hand, services in general need to have a minimum catchment area so as to be efficient. In this paper a model is presented that locates the maximum number of services that can coexist in a given region without having losses, taking into account that they need a minimum catchment area to exist. The objective is to minimize average distance to the population. The formulation presented belongs to the class of discrete P--median--like models. A tabu heuristic method is presented to solve the problem. Finally, the model is applied to the location of pharmacies in a rural region of Spain.
Subject(s):	-discrete facility location -threshold -tabu search -Microeconomics
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Document type:	Working Paper
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