Linear Programming and Applications in Examining Wasteful Commuting and Allocating Healthcare Providers

A KNIME-based case study applied the linear programming(LP) method to examine the issue of wasteful commuting in Columbus, Ohio; an example of allocating healthcare providers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to illustrate the implementation of a location-allocation problem. The case study comes from the book, Quantitative Methods and Socioeconomic Applications in GIS, Fahui Wang, 2nd edition.

一项基于KNIME的案例研究采用线性规划（Linear Programming，LP）方法，对俄亥俄州哥伦布市的无效通勤问题展开了考察；同时以路易斯安那州巴吞鲁日市的医疗服务提供者配置为例，阐明了选址-分配问题的具体实现流程。本案例研究源自王法辉所著《地理信息系统中的定量方法与社会经济应用》（第二版）。