Developing Approaches for Locating and Creating Agricultural Service Centers using Location-Allocation Model | ||
| تحقیقات سامانهها و مکانیزاسیون کشاورزی | ||
| Article 13, Volume 21, Issue 74, September 2020, Pages 185-202 PDF (1.31 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.22092/erams.2020.126188.1309 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Mortreza Zanganeh1; Asadolah Akram2 | ||
| 1Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Mechanization Engineering, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Guilan, rASHT, iRAN | ||
| 2Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Machinery Engineering; Faculty of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Iran | ||
| Abstract | ||
| In this research, different strategies were developed to establish an agricultural service center in terms of the number and capacity of services provided. A separate location model was developed to locate agricultural service centers for each solution. For this purpose, the location-allocation model was used to develop the location models and the branch and bound algorithm to solve the models. The main purpose of these models was to minimize the cost of deploying agricultural service centers (including start-up and shipping costs to the point of service). In the model solved in this study, measures such as cost of establishment, cost of service start-up, distance between service center to customers, transportation costs and number of trips required to meet each customer's demand were considered. In this study, in order to show the practical capabilities of developed methods and models, a case study was conducted in Razan city, in Hamadan Province. After implementation of the location-allocation model, the optimal locations to establish agricultural service centers in all villages of the area were determined separately. The results of this study can be used by national and regional managers and planners in locating agricultural service and planning centers to provide services to agricultural users. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Branch and Bond Algorithm; Distance; Demand; Transportation Cost; Establishment Cost | ||
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