Facility location models are well established in various application areas with more than a
century of history in academia. Since the 1970s the trend has been shifting from …

Abstract The field of “Sustainable Operations” and the term itself have arisen only in the last
ten to twenty years in the context of sustainable development. Even though the term is …

The increase in natural and man-made disasters in the recent years has highlighted
challenging problems in humanitarian operations, in addition to major long-term …

In this article, we present a discrete hierarchical location model for public facility planning.
The main features of the model are: an accessibility maximization objective; several levels of …

With the rapid urbanization, solving the facility location and size problem (FLSP) of general
service infrastructure (GSI) has become an essential issue in spatial planning. Due to …

This paper presents a decision support methodology to help increase public school
education efficiency at the municipal/district/metropolitan level in Brazil. An important …

The relevance of Operational Research (OR) in developing countries has increasingly
engaged the attention of operational researchers in both the industrialised and less …

This tutorial explores a series of questions related to the use of operations research (OR)
and operations management (OM) to improve public education systems. These questions …

The C hilean Ministry of Education oversees preschool, primary, and secondary education in
both urban and rural areas. Many parts of C hile are sparsely populated and there are …

The location of primary public schools in urban areas of developing countries is the focus of
this study. In such areas, new schools and modification of the current schools are required …