The effective planning of residential location choices is one of the great challenges of contemporary societies and requires forecasting capabilities and the consideration of complex interdependencies which can only be handled by complex computer models. This book presents a range of approaches...

Multinational enterprises have increasingly sought to organise their activities internationally in order to achieve greater efficiency and better optimisation of their market share and rent generation. However, MNEs do not regard all locations as being equivalent. Smaller economies and...

Die Standortwahl und die Ausstattung von Infrastruktureinrichtungen steht in vielfältigen und vor allem wechselseitigen Beziehungen zur Entwicklung der Mobilität. Verkehrliche Erreichbarkeit und zunehmend auch die Anbindungsmöglichkeiten an moderne und hochleistungsfähige Informations- und...

The automotive markets of the industrialized world are saturated. There is no longer any growth for the ""growth-minded"" automotive industry. This situation is not fundamentally changed by countries like China, India, and Eastern Europe, their markets are too small and develop their own...