Testing the gravity p-median model empirically

Regarding the location of a facility, the presumption in the widely used p-median model is that the customer opts for the shortest route to the nearest facility. However, this assumption is problematic on free markets since the customer is presumed to gravitate to a facility by the distance to and t...

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Main Authors: Kenneth Carling, Mengjie Han, Johan Håkansson, Pascal Rebreyend
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-12-01
Series:Operations Research Perspectives
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214716015000135