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Multiple Facility Location

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Locating multiple facilities of a single firm or agency falls between the location problems of a plant and of an industry.

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Beckmann, M.J. (1999). Multiple Facility Location. In: Lectures on Location Theory. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03762-1_6

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