Evaluation of dine-in restaurant location and competitiveness: Applications of gravity modeling in Jefferson County, Kentucky

Applied Geography

Volumn 60, Issue , 2015, Pages 204-209

  Dock, Joel P ^a   Song, Wei ^a   Lu, Jia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b VALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competing destinations model; GIS application; Gravity model; Market potential model; Quantitative analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939971302     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2014.11.008     Document Type: Article

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