Abstract
Finding the optimal location for industrial facilities has always been of a crucial importance and priority from geographers’ and economists’ view point. Although economics play the main role in presenting location theories by resorting to its theories, geographers, with their focus on locative and spatial changes leading to natural phenomenon, have also had a share in complimenting these location theories and finding optimal points to locate industrial activities location. From this point of view, materials, market and other manufacturing factors have not been concentrated in one point, and their spatial separation necessitates traveling distances which, in turn, brings about costs. That is why optimal industrial location is also a part of geographical studies.
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Bagherpoor, Z., Parhizi, S., Hoseininia, M., Heidari, N., Yaghin, R.G. (2009). Warehouse Location Problem. In: Zanjirani Farahani, R., Hekmatfar, M. (eds) Facility Location. Contributions to Management Science. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2151-2_13
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