The spatial distribution of current telecommunication infrastructures has led to the inequality of broadband access in residential areas. Addressing such inequality requires the consideration of many criteria that are often conflicting. In this paper, we focus on two important factors using a...

Due to strong local competition in the broadband access market, strategic locational planning is very important for service providers. In this paper, we explore locational equilibria in a competitive broadband market under several situations: with and without customer loyalty and under different...

Competitive location modeling deals with a strategic spatial decision which seeks to identify optimal locations for new facilities among existing competing facilities. The capture of customers by a new facility essentially depends on customer-choice behaviors. In this paper, we introduce a...

The <i>p</i>-median problem is difficult to solve and many heuristic methods have been developed. This paper discusses a new hybridization approach in which existing heuristics are used as ʻexperts’ in a problem-solving team where they cooperate by sharing their solutions with each other. This...

Multiobjective site-search problems are a class of decision problems that have geographical components and multiple, often conflicting, objectives; this kind of problem is often encountered and is technically difficult to solve. In this paper we describe an evolutionary algorithm (EA) based...

Automated or semiautomated surveillance monitoring involves movement tracking and sensor handoff. In order to track moving objects over a large area, sensor coverage needs to overlap significantly. Overlapping coverage can be modeled using the concept of backup coverage, a location modeling...

Understanding journey to work travel patterns remains an important concern for planners and policy-makers from the viewpoint of economic, environmental, and social sustainability. Researchers, keen to inform metropolitan scale planning efforts, have devised ways of benchmarking regional...