Underdeveloped countries are gradually opening remanufacturing facilities to recover end-of-life products (EOL). Locating these facilities in underdeveloped countries is quite challenging because many factors related to the environment, economics, an...
The continuous-space single- and multi-facility location problem has attracted much attention in previous studies. This study focuses on determining the globally optimal facility locations for two- and higher-dimensional continuous-space facility loc...
The Dynamic Facility Location problem is a generalization of the classic Facility Location problem, in which the distance metric between clients and facilities changes over time. Such metrics that develop as a function of time are usually called “evo...
The facility location problem is a classical combinatorial optimization problem with extensive applications spanning communication technology, economic management, traffic governance, and public services. The facility location problem is to assign a...
This paper presents a reliable emergency facility location optimization model that considers complex polygon barriers and the risk of facility disruption. From a sustainable perspective, with capacity, cost, and demand constraints, the model maximize...
Planning and defining places for the installation of police facilities are fundamental to improving the public security service in the urban space. Geographic Information Systems connecting the spatial distribution of police occurrences, budgetary re...
This article presents the possibilities in solving the Weighted Multi-Facility Location Problem and its related optimization tasks using a widely available office software—MS Excel with the Solver add-in. To verify the proposed technique, a set of be...
Currently, industry and academia are undergoing an evolution in developing the next generation of drone applications. Including the development of autonomous drones that can carry out tasks without the assistance of a human operator. In spite of this...
Background: Facility location is a key challenge in humanitarian logistics, particularly in disaster response, where rapid and efficient resource deployment is crucial. Temporary facilities offer a cost-effective solution due to their rapid deploymen...
Considering the recent lockdowns and travel bans due to COVID-19, novel tourism strategies are necessary to face the increasing need for innovative products and services and to ensure long-term sustainable growth. This study looks into the potential...
This paper presents a brief description of some existing models of facility location problems (FLPs) in solid waste management. The study provides salient information on commonly used distance functions in location models along with their correspondi...
The facility location selection, which is one of the important activities in strategic planning for a wide range of private and public companies, is a multi-criteria decision making problem including both quantitative and qualitative criteria. Tradit...
Recently, drones, have been utilized in many real-life applications including healthcare services. For example, providing medical supplies, blood samples, and vaccines to people in remote areas or during emergencies. In this study, the maximum covera...
This paper addresses the facility location problem under a mill pricing policy, integrating customers’ behavior through the concept of preferences. The problem is modeled as a bilevel optimization problem, where the existence of ties in custome...
In this study, we apply a robust optimization approach to a p-center facility location problem under uncertainty. Based on a symmetric interval and a multiple allocation strategy, we use three types of uncertainty sets to formulate the robust problem...
In this paper, the two-echelon multi-period multi-product location–inventory problem with partial facility closing and reopening is studied. For each product and period, plants serve warehouses, which serve consolidation hubs, which service cus...
The survival rate of the patients in medical emergencies depends on the minimize ambulance arrival time on-sites and promptly provides medical care to the patients. Advanced Life Support (ALS) ambulances play a critical role in reducing the fatal and...
Railroad accidents involving dangerous goods (DG) need to be rescued quickly due to their hazardous nature. This paper proposes an emergency facility location model for the railway dangerous-goods transportation problem (RDGT-EFLP, abbreviated as EFL...
Multi-facility location problem is a type of task often solved (not only) in logistics. It consists in finding the optimal location of the required number of centers for a given number of points. One of the possible solutions is to use the principle...
The purpose of this paper is to present a novel optimization framework that enhances Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Optimization (WDRO) for chance-constrained facility location problems under demand uncertainty. Traditional methods often rely on...
The frequent occurrence of natural disasters creates a symmetry-breaking scenario between pre-disaster planning and post-disaster rescue operations, such as post-disaster supply–demand mismatches for materials and the risk of potential facility...
Finding the optimal location for regional public facilities has historically been a challenge. Numerous studies have sought to find the best solutions, yet few of them provided a framework to incorporate criteria and indicators that look beyond spati...
Background: Access to healthy food in emerging-economy cities is challenged by last-mile constraints and poor infrastructure. Aligned with the UN SDGs on Zero Hunger and Sustainable Cities, this study examines how a strategically located nanostores n...
Solving competitive facility location problems can optimize market share or operational efficiency in environments where multiple firms compete for customer attention. In such contexts, facility attractiveness is shaped not only by geographic proximi...
As network scale and demand rise, the Uncapacitated Facility Location Problem (UFLP), a classical NP-hard problem widely studied in operations research, becomes increasingly challenging for traditional methods confined to formulation, construction, a...
With rapid development of the healthcare network, the location-allocation problems of public facilities under increased integration and aggregation needs have been widely researched in China’s developing cites. Since strategic formulation invol...
As the boundaries and population of urban areas expand, beverage distributors may seek to expand the capacity in their distribution centers. As a result, they may need to add new locations or increase the utilization of their existing center. This pa...
Truck platooning involves a small convoy of freight vehicles using electronic coupling as an application in automated driving technology, and it is expected to represent a major solution for improving efficiency in truck transportation in the near fu...
The facility location problem (FLP) is a complex optimization problem that has been widely researched and applied in industry. In this research, we proposed two innovative approaches to complement the limitations of traditional methods, such as heuri...
Alleviating human sufferings during and in the aftermath of disasters is one of the most important goals in humanitarian relief logistics. The lack of relief commodities, especially life-saving items, is a life-threatening loss to victims and must be...
With the increasing attention given to environmentalism, designing a green closed-loop supply chain network has been recognized as an important issue. In this paper, we consider the facility location problem, in order to reduce the total costs and CO...
The introduction of automated parcel locker (APL) systems is one possible approach to improve urban logistics (UL) activities. Based on the city of Dortmund as case study, we propose a simulation-optimization approach integrating a system dynamics si...
In this study, the pied kingfisher optimizer (PKO) algorithm is adapted to the uncapacitated facility location problem (UFLP), and its performance is evaluated. The PKO algorithm is binarized with fourteen different transfer functions (TF), and each...
Product-service systems contribute to sustainable development through innovative service integration and novel customer value creation. However, the competitive advantage of sustainable product lifecycle service delivery hinges critically on the oper...
This paper introduces the concept of close-enough in the context of facility location. It is assumed that customers are willing to move from their homes to close-enough pickup locations. Given that the number of pickup locations is expanding every da...
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Urbanization has been a flourishing process in a wide range of developing countries. The planning and construction of public service facilities is a crucial component of this process. Existing planning methods of public service facilities focused on...
Within the scope of sustainability, the development of park-and-ride (P&R) facilities can reduce the exhaust emissions of motor vehicles and help build an environmentally friendly society. The location of P&R facilities is the primary conside...
This study aims to clarify the statistical causal relationship between the locations of urban facilities and forecasted population changes according to types of residential clusters in the Osaka Metropolitan Fringe areas. This paper’s backgroun...
The rapid proliferation of e-commerce has reshaped the spatial logic and facility typologies of urban logistics. While the literature on logistics facility location selection is extensive, there is limited understanding of how the relative importance...
Research Highlights: A set of 128 potential bioenergy facility locations is established and evaluated based on the transport cost to select optimal locations. Background and Objectives: The identification of optimal facility locations to process reco...
A swarm intelligence optimization algorithm called white shark optimizer (WSO) has been proposed and successfully applied in regard to many aspects. In this paper, the location problem of sports facilities is regarded as a multi-objective problem, an...
In emergency medical facilities location, the hierarchical diagnosis and treatment system plays an obvious role in the rational allocation of medical resources and improving the use efficiency of medical resources. However, few studies have investiga...
The paper aims to study a multi-period maximal covering location problem with the configuration of different types of facilities, as an extension of the classical maximal covering location problem (MCLP). The proposed model can have applications such...
The uncertainty of post-earthquake disaster situations can affect the efficiency of rescue site selection, material, and personnel dispatching, as well as the sustainability of related resources. It is crucial for decision-makers to make decisions to...
The accurate detection and mapping of subsurface utilities are critical for ensuring safety and efficiency in excavation and construction projects. Among various technologies, Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) has been widely used for locating undergrou...
In the last few years, vehicle sharing has driven a gradual switch from ownership-based private mobility to service usage as a sustainable urban transport alternative. A significant number of cities have implemented mobility sharing programs. Shared...
The spatial allocation rationality of the service facilities of residential areas, which is affected by the scope of the population and the capacity of service facilities, is meaningful for harmonious urban development. The growth of the internet, es...
The Park and Ride (P&R) system is a set of facilities available to private vehicle users to transfer to public transportation in order to complete their journey. The location of the facilities is determined by the purpose for which they have been...
The rapid urbanization and population growth in mega-cities have led to a significant increase in the demand for medical services, highlighting the critical need for a more efficient alignment between the supply and demand of medical resources. Previ...
In this paper, we propose an RFID-based location-positioning platform for managing cart operations at vast and fast-moving distribution facilities. Our work was motivated by a real-world problem in a large airmail center. Our system requires that eac...
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