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Manzato, Gustavo G., Arentze, Theo A., Timmermans, Harry J. P., Ettema, Dick. Monash University. Faculty of Arts; 2010. A support system that delineates location-choice sets for firms seeking office space.

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Title: A support system that delineates location-choice sets for firms seeking office space
Creator: Manzato, Gustavo G.
Creator: Arentze, Theo A.
Creator: Timmermans, Harry J. P.
Creator: Ettema, Dick
Contributor: Monash University. Faculty of Arts. School of Geography and Environmental Science.
Subject: GIS
Subject: Office site selection
Subject: Decision support system
Date: 2010
Publisher: Monash University. Faculty of Arts
Description: Factors influencing the location decisions of offices include traffic, accessibility, employment conditions, economic prospects and land-use policies. Hence tools for supporting real-estate managers and urban planners in such multidimensional decisions may be useful. Accordingly, the objective of this study is to develop a GIS-based tool to support firms who seek office accommodation within a given regional or national study area. The tool relies on a matching approach, in which a firm’s characteristics (demand) on the one hand, and environmental conditions and available office spaces (supply) on the other, are analyzed separately in a first step, after which a match is sought. That is, a suitability score is obtained for every firm and for every available office space by applying some value judgments (satisfaction, utility etc.). The latter are powered by a focus on location aspects and expert knowledge about the location decisions of firms/organizations with respect to office accommodation as acquired from a group of real-estate advisers; it is stored in decision tables, and they constitute the core of the model. Apart from the delineation of choice sets for any firm seeking a location, the tool supports two additional types of queries. Firstly, it supports the more generic problem of optimally allocating firms to a set of vacant locations. Secondly, the tool allows users to find firms which meet the characteristics of any given location. Moreover, as a GIS-based tool, its results can be visualized using GIS features which, in turn, facilitate several types of analyses.

Identifier: http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/215879
Identifier: Manzato, G. G.; Arentze, T. A.; Timmermans, H. J.; Ettema, D. A support system that delineates location-choice sets for firms seeking office space, Applied GIS. 2010; 6(1), 1-17
Identifier: monash:39258
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Language: eng
Relation: http://www.appliedgis.net
Type: journal article
Type: Collection. Applied GIS
Type: Monash open access journal
Source: 1832-5505

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