LOCATION THEORY AND DECISION ANALYSIS

This book is aimed toward upperclass and graduate-level courses that include location decisionmaking. It includes the fundamental theories and analysis procedures of that process. With these fundamentals carefully and comprehensively compiled, it is well suited for courses such as management science, operations research, economics, civil and environmental engineering, industrial engineering, geography, urban and regional planning, and policy sciences. The book also serves as an overview of the relationship between location, transport, and land use decisions. As such, it introduces more advanced topics as documented in other works by the author and others. The book discusses how information can be stored in such a way that it can be directly translated to a format for real-time decisionmaking. This means simple and transparent models that are database compatible and require minimal data manipulation in the solution process. These models then become the tools for analysis and decisionmaking.