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A Method for Districting Among Facilities

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Keeney, RL
Published in: Operations Research
June 1972
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A problem shared by many municipal agencies and many large industries is: Given n service facilities whose locations have been set in a region, how should that region best be apportioned among the facilities if each facility is to have primary responsibility for service in one district of the region? This paper presents a simple and intuitive procedure for determining the boundaries of the service districts, using the criterion that each facility serves all points to which it is closest in either distance or travel time. The procedure is designed to be computed rapidly, either by hand or on a computer.

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Ralph L. Keeney
Author Ralph L. Keeney Fuqua School of Business

Published In

Operations Research

DOI

10.1287/opre.20.3.613

EISSN

1526-5463

ISSN

0030-364X

Publication Date

June 1972

Volume

20

Issue

3

Start / End Page

613 / 618

Publisher

Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

Related Subject Headings

  • Operations Research
  • 3507 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
  • 1503 Business and Management
  • 0802 Computation Theory and Mathematics
  • 0102 Applied Mathematics
 

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Keeney, R. L. (1972). A Method for Districting Among Facilities. Operations Research, 20(3), 613–618. https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.20.3.613
Keeney, Ralph L. “A Method for Districting Among Facilities.” Operations Research 20, no. 3 (June 1972): 613–18. https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.20.3.613.
Keeney RL. A Method for Districting Among Facilities. Operations Research. 1972 Jun;20(3):613–8.
Keeney, Ralph L. “A Method for Districting Among Facilities.” Operations Research, vol. 20, no. 3, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), June 1972, pp. 613–18. Crossref, doi:10.1287/opre.20.3.613.
Keeney RL. A Method for Districting Among Facilities. Operations Research. Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS); 1972 Jun;20(3):613–618.

Published In

Operations Research

DOI

10.1287/opre.20.3.613

EISSN

1526-5463

ISSN

0030-364X

Publication Date

June 1972

Volume

20

Issue

3

Start / End Page

613 / 618

Publisher

Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

Related Subject Headings

  • Operations Research
  • 3507 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
  • 1503 Business and Management
  • 0802 Computation Theory and Mathematics
  • 0102 Applied Mathematics