Location Theory and Decision Analysis with Facility-location and Land-use Models

This text integrates the models for facilities siting and land-use.

Employing state-of-the-art quantitative models and case-studies, the book guides the siting of such facilities as transportation terminals, warehouses, nuclear power plants, military bases, landfills, emergency shelters, state parks, and industrial plants.

The text should be of value to management-science analysts, transportation logisticians, civil and environmental engineers, economists, geographers, urban planners, developers, corporations, and government officials, who are involved in facility operation and planning - and who wish to avoid the costly mistakes that can result from poor locational decisions.

It also discusses facility consolidation, contraction, expansion and the traffic flow through these facilities.