Facility Location

Facility location is a strategic spatial optimization problem in operations management that involves determining the optimal geographic placement of production or distribution facilities to minimize costs and maximize operational efficiency.

7.3K

Publications

415.1K

Citations

13.4K

Authors

3.3K

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Publications per year

2017–2026

Variants

Facilities LocationFacility Location Problem

Parents

Operations Management

Children

Competitive Facility LocationDistribution Center LocationDynamic Facility LocationFacility SitingHub LocationLocation-allocation ModelsMultiple-facility LocationP-center ProblemP-median ProblemPlant Location

Publications

7.3K

Optimum Locations of Switching Centers and the Absolute Centers and Medians of a Graph

S. L. Hakimi · Operations Research · 1964 · 2.4K citations

Natural Sciences, Transportation Planning, Urban Planning +16

THE MAXIMAL COVERING LOCATION PROBLEM

Richard L. Church, CHARLES R. VELLE · Papers of the Regional Science Association · 1974 · 2K citations

Management, Industrial Engineering, Mathematics +11

The Location of Emergency Service Facilities

Constantine Toregas, Ralph W. Swain, Charles ReVelle et al. · Operations Research · 1971 · 1.8K citations

Management, Emergency Planning, Operations Management +14

International investment location decisions

David Wheeler, Ashoka Mody · Journal of International Economics · 1992 · 1.8K citations

Business, International Business, Facility Location +11

The maximal covering location problem

Richard L. Church, Charles ReVelle · Papers of the Regional Science Association · 1974 · 1.8K citations

Management, Industrial Engineering, Mathematics +11

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Authors

13.4K

ZD
Zvi Drezner
California State University, Fullerton, United States
106 publications · 5.4K citations
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CR
Charles ReVelle
Johns Hopkins University, United States
56 publications · 9.1K citations
38
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OB
Oded Berman
University of Toronto, Canada
69 publications · 3.8K citations
36
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GO
George O. Wesolowsky
McMaster University, Canada
50 publications · 2.7K citations
30
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RT
Reza Tavakkoli‐Moghaddam
University of Tehran, Iran
41 publications · 2K citations
28
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Institutions

3.3K

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Venues

European Journal of Operational Research
401 publications · 36.8K citations
105
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Computers & Operations Research
244 publications · 17.9K citations
73
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Operations Research
119 publications · 17.6K citations
60
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Management Science
93 publications · 12.2K citations
56
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Transportation Science
126 publications · 10.8K citations
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See also Facility Location
Core Methods	Variable Neighborhood Search Branch-and-cut Local Search Integer Linear Programming Branch And Bound Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure Primal-dual Algorithms Greedy Algorithms Graph Algorithms
Variants	P-median Problem Maximal Covering Location Problem P-center Problem Capacitated Location-allotment Problem Uncapacitated Plant Location Capacitated P-median Problem Stochastic Competitive Facility Location Robust Dynamic Facility Location
Applications	Supply Chain Management Public Facility Planning Logistics Network Design Health Facility Location
Evaluation	Demand Coverage Market Share
Limitations	Robust Dynamic Facility Location Stochastic Programming Capacitated Location-allotment Problem