The installation and operation of public facilities, such as schools or hospitals, involve important amounts of public spending, and therefore need to be carefully planned. Research efforts made since the early 1960s led to the development of a rich collection of optimization models and solution...

We present in this paper the development and application of a cellular automata model that uses irregular cells for simulating land-use change instead of the common regular cells based on the pixels of remote sensing images. The use of irregular cells combines urban form with reliable...

In this paper we report the results of a study on secondary school planning made within the framework of Coimbra’s Educational Charter. Coimbra is a medium-sized municipality of 320 km<font=-2>²</font> and 150 000 inhabitants located in the center-littoral region of Portugal. The planning problem addressed...</font=-2>