Locational Analysis: Highlights of Growth to Maturity

Locational analysis has grown to maturity over the last decades, from its earliest roots, to fruitfulness in a wide-ranging number of strands that join with other disciplines and applications such as environmental planning and supply chain management. This paper charts the progress of location theor...

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Published in:The Journal of the Operational Research Society 2009-05, Vol.60 (Suppl 1), p.s140-s148
Main Authors: Smith, H. K., Laporte, G., Harper, P. R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
17th century
Algorithms
Ambulances
Applied sciences
Business and Management
Emergency services
Exact sciences and technology
Factories
Geodetic position
Geometric planes
Heuristic
Heuristics
History
Industrial plant locations
Linear programming
Location analysis
Logistics
Management
Modeling
Operational research and scientific management
Operational research. Management science
Operations research
Operations Research/Decision Theory
Optimization
Plant location
Special Issue Paper
Stochastic models
Supply chain management
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Summary:Locational analysis has grown to maturity over the last decades, from its earliest roots, to fruitfulness in a wide-ranging number of strands that join with other disciplines and applications such as environmental planning and supply chain management. This paper charts the progress of location theory in three stages: a period of early contributions, when a number of seminal geometrical and geographical problems were studied; a 'coming of age' with the development of defining or classical problems that have proved fundamental to much later research and a third period of new models and new applications.
ISSN:0160-5682
1476-9360
DOI:10.1057/jors.2008.172