LOCATION OF A NEW FACILITY ON A LINEAR MARKET IN THE PRESCENCE OF WEIGHTS

In this paper, the authors study the trading areas of n facilities with unequal weights located on a finite lienar market. Customers are uniformly distributed on the market. Their attratction to a facility is directly proportional to the weight of facility and inversely proportional to the distance separating them from the facility. The problem considered is that of determining which location will maximize the trading area of a new facility entering the market. A procedure which solves this problem in O(n2) time is presented and illustrated by means of a simple example. (A)

• Corporate Authors:

  CENTRE DE RECHERCHE SUR LES TRANSPORTS. UNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL

  C.P. 6128, SUCCURSALE A
  MONTREAL, QUEBEC  Canada  H3C 3J7
• Authors:
  • EISELT, H A
  • Laporte, G
• Publication Date: 1987-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 7 p.
• Serial:
  • CENTRE DE RECHERCHE SUR LES TRANSPORTS PUBLICATION
  • Issue Number: 538
  • Publisher: Universite de Montreal

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Calculation; Location; Marketing; Mathematical models; Methodology; Optimization; Physical distribution
• Uncontrolled Terms: Optimum
• ITRD Terms: 6464: Calculation; 9016: Distribution (gen); 9061: Location; 277: Marketing; 6473: Mathematical model; 9102: Method
• Subject Areas: Design; Freight Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00674451
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Mar 8 1995 12:00AM