School location methodology in urban areas of developing countries

Pizzolato, Nélio Domingues; Barcelos, Fabrício Broseghini; Lorena, Luiz Antônio Nogueira

doi:10.1111/j.1475-3995.2004.00483.x

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“…For education and health care, facility location methods have been used to help efficiently locate schools or clinics (Pizolato et al [90], Rahman and Smith [91]). Three of the Millennium Development Goals relate to health care (United Nations [112]), an area where OR and logistics have taken the lead, from locating hospitals to vaccine distribution and optimal vaccine scheduling.…”

Section: Long-term Humanitarian Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Humanitarian Logistics

Çelik¹,

Ergün²,

Johnson³

et al. 2012

2012 TutORials in Operations Research

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Please scroll down for article-it is on subsequent pagesINFORMS is the largest professional society in the world for professionals in the fields of operations research, management science, and analytics. For more information on INFORMS, its publications, membership, or meetings visit http://www.informs.org INFORMS 2012 c 2012 INFORMS | isbn 978-0-9843378-3-5 http://dx.Abstract 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 humanitarian development challenges. Humanitarian logistics plays an important role in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from sudden-onset disasters and addressing long-term development issues. The management of humanitarian logistics operations involves many challenges such as conflicting objectives from multiple stakeholders, coordination and collaboration, high uncertainty, and scarcity of resources. In this tutorial, we provide an introduction to humanitarian logistics and its main application areas while outlining current research trends and the major challenges faced in the area today. We also present four decision aid tools addressing typical applications of humanitarian logistics: network design for donated human breast milk delivery in South Africa, port simulation and shipment scheduling for a large international agency, demand estimation and emergency procurement for CARE, and postdisaster medical response under accessibility issues. In presenting these decision aid tools, we aim to underline the differences in issues arising from sudden-onset disasters and long-term development problems, various stages of the life cycle of disasters, and different decision levels, while also pointing to general aspects in modeling humanitarian logistics problems.

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Section: Long-term Humanitarian Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Humanitarian Logistics

Çelik¹,

Ergün²,

Johnson³

et al. 2012

2012 TutORials in Operations Research

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“…The paper provides an instrument for local authorities to support decisions aimed to increase the capacity of existing schools, implement new schools or suppress non-essential school locations. For Brazilian papers on school location, see Pizzolato et al (2004), Pizzolato et Silva, (1997), Figueiredo et al (2014) and Mapa et Lima (2014).…”

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“…This system includes four complementary, but independent, analyses: (i) analysis of the current location of facilities; (ii) analysis of the proposed location; (iii) analysis of expanding the capacity of existing units, and (iv) analysis of the opening of new units. Analyses (i) and (ii) have been presented and used in several other works (see e.g., Pizzolato et al, 2004). Analysis (iii) shows the number of places that should be added to the infant education units to meet demand according to the criterion of proximity.…”

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Proposed system for analyzing the location of preschools: a Brazilian case study

Endler

Scarpin

Steiner

2017

BJO&PM

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Early infant education and care have become priority issues in Brazil. The present article evaluates the spatial distribution of public preschools in the municipality of Curitiba, in Paraná State, Brazil. This problem is an important aspect of school administration and can relieve problems of inequality in public education, such as accessibility and availability of places. The main contribution of this article is the system it proposes for rationalizing decision-making in the education system in question. This system presents four complementary analyses, although they are independent of one another: (i) analysis of the current location of facilities; (ii) analysis of the proposed location; (iii) analysis for expanding the capacity of existing units; and (iv) analysis of the opening of new facilities. The models were generated using VB.NET © modeling language and were solved by the CPLEX © solver. The results showed that, in general, there is a need for immediate planning to increase the number of places available in public infant education in Curitiba, which is also a requirement for compliance with the goals of the National Education Plan (NEP) that is now in force nationwide.

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“…Church and Murray (1993) present a multi-objective model considering school openings and closures and capacity balancing between schools. Pizzolato and Silva (1997) and Pizzolato et al (2004) use a p-median model for clustering population centers. The clusters thus found are then analyzed by confronting total existing school capacity and population.…”

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A hierarchical location model for public facility planning

Teixeira

Antunes

2008

European Journal of Operational Research

129

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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 demand and of facilities; a nested hierarchy of facilities (i.e. a facility of a given level can serve demand of equal and lower levels); maximum and minimum capacity constraints; and user-to-facility assignment constraints. The latter include single-assignment and closest-assignment constraints, as well as a new type of constraints called path-assignment constraints. Their purpose is to enforce some desirable properties for the spatial pattern of assignments. If they are not included, model solutions are difficult to interpret and to explain in a public facility planning context, therefore being less likely to be accepted by the users. The usefulness of the model is illustrated through a real-world application to school network planning.

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School location methodology in urban areas of developing countries

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