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Facility Location in the Public Sector

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In this chapter we focus on facility location problems that arise in the public sector. In particular, we consider selected problems in transportation, health care, and education—important sectors of public service. The adequate consideration of demand in these models is of core interest in this chapter. Besides a discussion of selected model formulations we provide a quantitative and qualitative overview of recent publications in the field.

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  1. Universität Hamburg, Faculty of Business Administration (HBS – Hamburg Business School), Institute of Transport Economics, Hamburg, Germany

    Knut Haase & Ralf Krohn

  2. Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Institute for Transport & Infrastructure, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Lukas Knörr, Sven Müller & Michael Wagner

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  1. HEC Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

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  3. Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

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Haase, K., Knörr, L., Krohn, R., Müller, S., Wagner, M. (2019). Facility Location in the Public Sector. In: Laporte, G., Nickel, S., Saldanha da Gama, F. (eds) Location Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32177-2_26

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