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Facing worse fiscal plight, many municipalities in Sweden must today carefully reexamine their activities. In urban planning, this has resulted in a growing interest in how the urban development could be designed to support and facilitate the efficient use of existing public investments. This paper focuses on the school sector as being one of the most costly. A location-allocation model of the capacitated facility location type is formulated. A set of potential schools consisting of existing and new ones are considered. The school-age children are assigned to a subset of these schools so as to minimize the sum of the capital costs of this subset and the transportation costs of the children. The model is applied to the municipality of Uppsala in Sweden. Different future settlement structures proposed by the planners as well as different housing allocations generated by a separate optimization model are evaluated.
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Mattsson, L.G. Residential location and school planning in a tightening urban economy. Ann Oper Res 6, 181–200 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02026824
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02026824