Summary: Methods for Determining Locations and Districts of Central Facilities

TL;DRAbstract

In urban and regional planning the determination of locations and districts for central facilities, such as ambulance dispatch centers, kindergartens, swimming pools, post offices or libraries, has to be considered as one of several steps within a planning process concerned with private and public infrastructure facilities. Within this step a decision has to be made on the location and district for a central facility, a decision which is subject to locational decisions for other central facilities of the same type. Consequently, in determining the location of a facility one has to plan for a system of central facilities. Thus the decisional problem takes the form of a "location-allocation-problem" including the "location-problem" and the "districting-problem". The most general definition of the location-allocation-problem is: Due to its size and shape a planning region — in which the requirement of an explicitly and precisely denoted radius of service or upper limit of capacity of a ce

Chat with Paper

AI Agents for this Paper