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Locational analysis: highlights of growth to maturity

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  • H K Smith

    (University of Southampton)

  • G Laporte

    (HEC Montréal)

  • P R Harper

    (Cardiff University)

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Locational analysis has grown to maturity over the last decades, from its earliest roots, to fruitfulness in a wide-ranging number of strands that join with other disciplines and applications such as environmental planning and supply chain management. This paper charts the progress of location theory in three stages: a period of early contributions, when a number of seminal geometrical and geographical problems were studied; a ‘coming of age’ with the development of defining or classical problems that have proved fundamental to much later research and a third period of new models and new applications.

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  • H K Smith & G Laporte & P R Harper, 2009. "Locational analysis: highlights of growth to maturity," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 60(1), pages 140-148, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:jorsoc:v:60:y:2009:i:1:d:10.1057_jors.2008.172
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