Optimizing Access to Public Services: A Review of Problems,Models and Methods of Locating Central Facilities

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It must also be confessed, that, wherever we depart from this equality, we rob the poor of more satisfaction than we add to the rich, and that the slight gratification of a frivolous variety, in one individual, frequently costs more than bread to many families, and even provinces (D. Hume, An enquiry concerning the principles of morals).

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