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A Rectilinear Distance Round-Trip Location Problem

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  • Albert W. Chan

    (National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada)

  • Donald W. Hearn

    (University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida)

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The problem considered is that of finding the location of a facility in the plane so that the maximum weighted rectilinear round-trip distance between the facility and N pairs of existing facilities is minimized. The round-trip distance is the total distance traveled starting from the new facility via a pair of existing facilities and back to the new facility. An efficient one-pass solution procedure is developed for finding all the optimal locations to the problem, and is compared computationally with the simplex method. Two special cases are investigated, namely, when the existing facilities lie on a line, and when all the weights are equal.

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  • Albert W. Chan & Donald W. Hearn, 1977. "A Rectilinear Distance Round-Trip Location Problem," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 11(2), pages 107-123, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ortrsc:v:11:y:1977:i:2:p:107-123
    DOI: 10.1287/trsc.11.2.107
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    1. Drezner, Zvi & Wesolowsky, George O., 2001. "On the collection depots location problem," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 130(3), pages 510-518, May.
    2. Berman, Oded & Drezner, Zvi & Wesolowsky, George O., 2007. "The transfer point location problem," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 179(3), pages 978-989, June.
    3. O Berman & Z Drezner & G O Wesolowsky, 2008. "The multiple location of transfer points," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 59(6), pages 805-811, June.
    4. Nagy, Gabor & Salhi, Said, 2007. "Location-routing: Issues, models and methods," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 177(2), pages 649-672, March.
    5. Capelle, Thomas & Cortés, Cristián E. & Gendreau, Michel & Rey, Pablo A. & Rousseau, Louis-Martin, 2019. "A column generation approach for location-routing problems with pickup and delivery," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 272(1), pages 121-131.

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