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Download or read book Dynamic School Network Planning in Urban Areas written by Sven Müller and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2008 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within a spatial competitive framework decision makers of services face the question what is the optimal point in time to open or close a facility location under probabilistic demand? Although this question has a long term tradition in human geography it is still difficult to answer since demand is usually not monotonic and often there are spatial substitution patterns between facilities. This book presents a location planning approach which considers the availability of service locations to customers and the allocation of demand according to utility-maximization and substitution patterns.