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(1) Teaching methods: lectures combining theoretical explanations with conceptual and real-case discussions; and talks by leading experts in the field.
Provide students with advanced knowledge about public facility planning concepts, methodologies, and techniques, upon which to base high-level R&D activities.
(1) Ingredients of public facility planning. Demand vs. supply of public facilities. Operational planning vs. strategic planning. Role of the public sector.
(2) Operational public facility planning. Objectives. Decisions. Constraints. Approaches. Demand estimation. Determination of supply. Decision support techniques. Cost-benefit analysis. Multicriteria analysis. Optimization techniques. Basic models (UFLP, CFLP, p-median, MCP) – formulation and resolution. Advanced models (hierarchic, dynamic, stochastic).
(3) Strategic public facility planning. Influence of public facilities on household and firm locational decisions. Decision support techniques.
Continuous
Final written exam: 50.0%
Practical work: 50.0%
Antunes, A.P. (2006), Lições de Planeamento de Equipamentos Colectivos, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra (Portugal) – inclui em anexo uma coleção de artigos de referência sobre o assunto / includes in annex a collection of reference articles on the subject.
Daskin, M.S. (1995), Network and Discrete Location: Models, Algorithms and Applications, Wiley, New York (USA).
Larson, R.C., Odoni, A.R., Urban Operations Research, Dynamic Ideas, Belmont (MA, USA).