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The Location of Interacting Hub Facilities

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  • Morton E. O'Kelly

    (The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio)

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Hubs are central facilities which act as switching points in networks connecting a set of interacting nodes. This paper develops several location models for hubs. The one-hub siting problem is equivalent to a Weber least cost location model. An empirical example demonstrates the relevance of this model for an understanding of contemporary express delivery networks. A new model describing the location of two hubs in a plane yields several interesting pairs of hub location under different assumptions about scale effects on the interfacility linkage: generally as these scale effects increase the locations of the hubs move apart.

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  • Morton E. O'Kelly, 1986. "The Location of Interacting Hub Facilities," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 20(2), pages 92-106, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ortrsc:v:20:y:1986:i:2:p:92-106
    DOI: 10.1287/trsc.20.2.92
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