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Introduction to Location Science

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This chapter introduces modern Location Science. It traces the roots of the area and describes the path leading to the full establishment of this research field. It identifies several disciplines having strong links with Location Science and offers examples of areas in which the knowledge accumulated in the field of location has been applied with great success. It describes the purpose and structure of this volume. Finally, it provides suggestions on how to make use of the contents presented in this book, namely for organizing general or specialized location courses targeting different audiences.

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Notes

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    The problem is presented in his famous essay on maxima and minima.

  2. 2.

    This triangle is referred to by Weber (1909) as the weight triangle.

  3. 3.

    Node O was called by Launhardt the pole of the locational triangle.

  4. 4.

    The author is now known to be Andrew Vázsonyi (1916–2003).

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  1. HEC Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

    Gilbert Laporte

  2. Institute for Operations Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

    Stefan Nickel

  3. Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics (ITWM), Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Stefan Nickel

  4. Centro de Investigação Operacional/Departamento de Estatística e Investigação Operacional, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    Francisco Saldanha da Gama

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    Gilbert Laporte

  2. Institute of Operations Research (IOR), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Stefan Nickel

  3. DEIO-FCUL, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

    Francisco Saldanha da Gama

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Laporte, G., Nickel, S., da Gama, F.S. (2015). Introduction to Location Science. In: Laporte, G., Nickel, S., Saldanha da Gama, F. (eds) Location Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13111-5_1

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