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Equality Measures and Facility Location

Year: 1991

Type: article

Abstract: ABSTRACT A review of the literature indicates that fairly simplistic measures of equality in travel distances are normally used in facility location studies. Two popular criteria, those of minimizing the maximal distance and the range, are known to be sensitive to the extreme values (locations of users) of the problem. This paper recommends that distributional equality should be used instead in most locational studies. Using a simple spatial setting, the paper offers a comparative analysis of equality curves based on the following measures: Gini coefficient, mean deviation, Hoover's concentration index, variance (standard deviation), and Theil's entropy index.

Source: Papers of the Regional Science Association

DOI: 10.1007/bf01434593

Author: Gordon F. Mulligan

Language: English

Topic: Facility Location and Emergency Management

Subfield: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $2,740

OpenAlex ID: W2160860640

FWCI: 0.742

Cites: 40

Cited by: 75

Related to: 10