True or false: Location-allocation modeling is a normative approach to analysis.
A. True
B. False
A. True
The opposite of a descriptive location is ______________.
C. Normative
The concept of a best activity for a given site was introduced by
D. Von Thunen
True or false: Von Thunen did not assume an isotropic (continuous and featureless) surface.
A. True
B. False
B. False
The critical _________ is, in Weber's model, the line where transport cost savings offset other types of cost savings.
A. isodapane
Weber modeled transport costs as a linear function of __________ x _________.
A. weight; distance
Palander expanded upon Weber's model by factoring in
C. size of market areas.
________ are lines joining points of equal delivered price.
A. Isotims
_______ coined the idea of isotims, and isochrones were introduced by __________ .
C. Palander; Palander
__________ introduced the idea of nodes emerging in networks.
A. Hoover
_________ pioneered the idea of separating line-haul and terminal charges.
D. Hoover
_________ introduced the idea of diminishing returns, or non-linear production costs.
A. Hoover
_________ introduced the idea of equilibrium location of competitors, thus becoming one of the founders of the idea of locational interdependence.
D. Hotelling
True or false: Hotelling assumed elastic demand.
A. True
B. False
B. False
__________ found that, for elastic demand, competitors in a duopoly would locate at the market's quartiles.
D. Smithies
__________ incorporated demand into location analysis.
B. Loesch
_________'s work was concerned with finding locations that maximized profit, i.e., where revenue exceeds costs by the greatest amount.
B. Loesch
___________ is considered the founder of regional science for his 1956 book that combined the various themes of location theory and fused them with other branches of economics.
D. Isard
Which of the following are true of decision variables:
1. They are always the basic element of any location-allocation model
2. They are canonically represented by a letter with a subscript
3. They can be less than zero.
D. 2 and 1
Location-allocation models must have
I. Decision variable
II. Objective function
D. I and II
True or false: all problems that have an objective function also have system constraints.
A. True
B. False
B. False
A value having to be an integer is an example of
C. System constraint
__________ models are the simplest (with lowest level of abstraction).
B. Iconic
________ models change only the scale of what is being modeled.
C. Iconic
__________ models both change the scale and transform the properties of what is modeled.
A. Analogue
___________ models are the highest level of abstraction.
B. Symbolic
All mathematical and statistical models are ___________.
A. Symbolic
True or false: Weber, like Von Thunen, saw space as continuous.
A. True
B. False
A. True
A ____________ problem is one that looks for the best location given an activity.
C. Weberian
A _____________ problem is one that, given a location, chooses the best activity.
A. Von Thunen
True or false: price elasticity means that % change in quantity demanded is greater than % change in price.
A. True
B. False
A. True
The __________ price is the maximum price a consumer is willing to pay for a good.
D. reservation
The ___________ is the difference between what people are willing to pay and what they actually pay.
B. Consumer surplus
A ___________ is the distance people are willing to travel to purchase a good or service.
B. market area
In the Weberian model, the material index is calculated as (localized material transport cost)/X, where X is
B. finished product transport cost
In the Weberian model, an industry that uses only ubiquitous materials would locate
A. At the market site
In the Weberian model, an industry that uses one localized pure material would locate
C. Somewhere in between
In the Weberian model, and industry that uses one localized pure material and some ubiquitous ones would locate
B. At the market site
In the Weberian model, an industry that uses multiple pure localized materials would locate
B. At the market site
In the Weberian model, an industry that uses one localized gross material would locate
A. At the material's source
In the Weberian model, an industry that uses one localized gross material and some ubiquitous ones would locate
B. Either market site or material's source
In the Weberian model, an industry that uses more than one gross material, all localized, would locate
C. Somewhere in between
_____________ first determined that the price of food determines the price of land and not the other way around.
A. Ricardo
__________ is the difference between the market price of a commodity and its production cost.
B. Economic rent
Ricardian rent can be expressed as
Rij = Qij (Pi - Cij), where Qij is
B. The volume of production of crop i at site j
Ricardian rent can be expressed as Rij = Qij (Pi - Cij), where Cij is
D. The cost of production of crop i at site j
True or false: system equity is a stronger measure of locational equity than a minimum standard.
A. True
B. False
B. False
Setting a maximum limit to acceptable travel time to school for students is an example of
D. System equity
The ________________ tries to minimize the total number of facilities such that every place is still served by at least one facility.
B. location set-covering problem
True or false: in the location set-covering problem, there can only be one optimal solution.
A. True
B. False
B. False
The __________ problem aims to locate a given number of facilities such that they cover the maximum population or demand.
A. maximal covering location problem
The common form for public-facility location models is based on the ___________ problem.
C. P-median problem
Which solutional heuristic for public-facility location problems is probably the best-known and most widely-used?
B. Teitz and Bart heuristic
Which solutional algorithm for public-facility location problems works as follows:
1. Start with a number of possible sites
2. Sees if any site not currently in the set could be substituted for one that is
3. Makes such substitutions as long as the objective function improves as a result
D. Teitz and Bart heuristic
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Card Set
Location Analysis Midterm Exam
Description
Terms and concepts for the online portion of the Location Analysis (GEOG 5100) midterm exam.
