A competitive facility location model with elastic demand and patronising behaviour sensitive to location, price and waiting time

International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 293-312

  Pahlavani, Ali ^a   Saidi Mehrabad, Mohammad ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Arrival rates equilibrium; Competitive facility location model; Elastic demand; Waiting time

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054775027     PISSN: 17427967     EISSN: 17427975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJLSM.2011.043119     Document Type: Article

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