Planning toward equal accessibility to services: A quadratic programming approach

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 195-212

  Wang, Fahui ^a   Tang, Quan ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility index; Equal accessibility; Health care access; Job access; Quadratic programming

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; OPTIMIZATION; PERIPHERAL REGION;

CHICAGO; COLUMBUS [OHIO]; ILLINOIS; OHIO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84875450856     PISSN: 02658135     EISSN: 14723417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/b37096     Document Type: Article

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