Location Covering Models History, Applications and Advancements /

• Main Authors: Church, Richard L. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Murray, Alan (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Advances in Spatial Science, The Regional Science Series,
• Subjects: Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; Operations research.; Management science.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Geographical information systems.; Public administration.; Public policy.; Regional/Spatial Science.; Operations Research, Management Science.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.; Public Administration.; Public Policy.

This book provides a thoughtful and rigorous guide to coverage modeling, reviewing essential models, solution approaches, and related applications. Since the early developments of the Location Set Covering Problem and the Maximal Covering Location Problem, models based upon some form of coverage hav...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• 1 Location Modeling and Covering Metrics
• 2 Classic Beginnings
• 3 Hierarchical, Coordinated, Multi-objective and Multitype
• 4 Probabilistic Coverage
• 5: Anti-cover
• 6 Weighted Benefit, Variable Radius, and Gradual Coverage
• 7 Capture, Capacities, and Thresholds
• 8 Continuous Space Coverage
• 9 Disruption, Protection, and Resilience of Service Coverage
• 10 Coverage of Network‐Based Structures: Paths, Tours and Trees
• 11 Grand Challenges.