Application and extension of the Moore and ReVelle Hierarchical Maximal Covering Model

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 92-101

  Ratick, Samuel J ^a   Osleeb, Jeffrey P ^b   Hozumi, Dai ^c  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Facility siting; Hierarchical Maximal Covering Models; Medical facilities

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; LOCATION DECISION; LOCATION THEORY; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ASIA; EURASIA; PAKISTAN; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 59749095218     PISSN: 00380121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2008.02.011     Document Type: Article

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