The Maximal Covering Location Problem (MCLP) has the objective of maximizing the total demand volume covered by a facility within a maximum allowable travel distance, S. In this paper, three sets of data 30-node, 324-node and 818-node networks with no existing facilities are analyzed as the capacitated model of MCLP (CMCLP) and first solved by the commercial optimization software, CPLEX. As the...

Abstract: Hub location problem is one of the most important problems in the areas of logistics and telecommunication network design. In this paper, we address the single allocation maximal covering hub location problem in which the objective is to maximise the amount of covered flows associated with origin-destination pairs in a hub-and-spoke network using a fixed number of hub facilities. Two ...

We introduce a new continuous location-allocation problem where the facilities have both a fixed opening cost and a coverage distance limitation. The problem might have wide applications especially in the spatial planning of water and/or energy access networks where the coverage distance might be associated with the physical loss constraints. We formulate a mixed integer quadratically constrain...