The medical facility location problem has attracted increasing attention in recent years
because the rational layout of medical facilities plays an important role in implementing the …

We consider issues of equity in stochastic facility location models for healthcare
applications. We explore how uncertainty exacerbates inequity and examine several equity …

This article considers current capacity issues in health care and the development of
quantitative techniques to facilitate a high-level strategic assessment of hospital activity …

In this paper, a spatial analysis is performed to measure students' access to the upper
secondary education system. Based on the definition of quantitative indicators, the adopted …

Redundancy aspects related to covering facility location problems are of extreme
importance for many applications, in particular those regarding critical services. For …

Managing waste is a crucial challenge for modern societies. Within the UK government's
ambitious environmental targets, municipal Household Waste Recycling Centres represent …

Improving non-motorized accessibility is essential to enable access to vital services such as
education and healthcare. Road networks are often inadequately designed for non …

The wide diffusion of digital technologies has produced a sharp decline in letter mail
volumes. In this context, postboxes are mostly underutilized, and postal operators are …

Blood is a vital resource for human being since its unavailability may cause deaths and
complications for patients. For this reason, in the last 20 years great interest has been …

Good health and well-being are key to achieving the main goals of the UN Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs), especially after the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic. What …