Locating farmers' markets with an incorporation of spatio-temporal variation

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 149-156

  Tong, Daoqin ^a   Ren, Fang ^b   Mack, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Facility location; Farmers' market; P Median problem; Space time

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; FACILITY LOCATION; MARKET; P-MEDIAN; SPATIAL PLANNING; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARIZONA; TUCSON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84858440499     PISSN: 00380121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2011.07.002     Document Type: Article

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