A chain has to decide the location and design for a single new facility in a region where a set of facilities already exists offering the same type of product. Some of the existing facilities belong to the chain and the others are competitors. Since competition comes from outside the chain, the...

Detailed analyses and comparisons of urban travel forecasts prepared by applying the state-of-practice sequential procedure and the solution of a combined network equilibrium model are presented. The sequential procedure for solving the trip distribution, mode choice and assignment problems with...

In the context of competitive facility location problems demand points often have to be aggregated due to computational intractability. However, usually this spatial aggregation biases the value of the objective function and the optimality of the solution cannot be guaranteed for the original...