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Joseph, Lawrence, and Michael Kuby. "The Location Types of US Retailers." International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research 7, no. 4 (October 2016): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijagr.2016100101.

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This manuscript presents the results of an inductive analysis of the types of locations chosen by US retailers. Using a large cross-sectional database, including fifty US retail chains and over 70,000 store locations, a classification of retail location types is presented using cluster analysis on situational and trade area data. These data are then applied to create a location profile for each retailer. Based on the results of the first cluster analysis, a second cluster analysis then groups together the chains with the most similar location profiles. A total of twelve distinct location types were identified in the first cluster analysis. Eight groupings of retailers with similar location profiles were identified in the second cluster analysis. Retailers within the same retail business chose similar types of locations and thus were placed in the same clusters. Retailers generally restrict their deployment to one of three overall strategies including metropolitan, large retail areas, or market size variety with specialty retailers favoring large retail areas of urban markets.

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Reynolds, Jonathan. "Retail location analysis: An annotated bibliography." Journal of Targeting, Measurement and Analysis for Marketing 13, no. 3 (April 2005): 258–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jt.5740152.

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Adeniyi, Oluwole, Abraham Brown, and Paul Whysall. "Retail location preferences: A comparative analysis." Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services 55 (July 2020): 102146. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2020.102146.

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Langston, P., G. P. Clarke, and D. B. Clarke. "Retail Saturation, Retail Location, and Retail Competition: An Analysis of British Grocery Retailing." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 29, no. 1 (January 1997): 77–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a290077.

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The appreciably dramatic idea that British grocery retailing is facing imminent saturation has attracted increasing attention particularly since the mid-1980s to late 1980s. In this paper we seek to review and attempt to sophisticate the debate over saturation by providing a detailed discussion and spatial analysis of current levels of retail provision. This analysis, in itself, offers a view of the potential for future retail expansion. We argue here, however, that spatial patterns of retail provision must be interpreted carefully, particularly given the profoundly different competitive conditions that characterise British grocery retailing in the 1990s as compared with the 1980s. In considering both the spatial patterns of, and competitive processes underlying, British food retailing, we offer an account of recent retail geography in a way that synthesises approaches that are all too frequently presented as antagonistic.

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K.Aparna, P. Murali Krishna, and V. Satish Kumar. "ANALYSIS OF RETAIL MIX STRATEGIES: A SPECIAL FOCUS ON MODERN RETAIL FORMATS." International Journal of Engineering Technologies and Management Research 5, no. 5 (February 27, 2020): 71–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/ijetmr.v5.i5.2018.228.

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A shopper usually comes across many retailers in the market place, each having its own overall product offering. One retailer may be attracting customers due to its unbeatable location and visibility, other on the basis of discounted prices, someone on the basis of variety of merchandise or specialised product offering. If small retailers promise to offer the convenience of fulfilling the daily needs at your doorstep, the big retailers promise to offer better value in terms of competitive pricing and convenience of making all products available under the same roof. Then online retailers are trying to outsmart conventional retailers by killing time and distance constraints. Thus, it is seen that retail market place has become very competitive and challenging over a period of time. Market has already become tough due to increasing cultural and demographic diversity and changing lifestyles over a period of time. Every market has its own set of needs. Like any marketer, a retailer has to decide which kind of market it should cater to in a satisfactory manner. As a result, the retailer has to explore many options to differentiate themselves in the market place and appeal to its target customers. The options are available in the form of combining different elements of retail mix. Retail mix is mainly deciding about merchandise, price, promotional mix, location, services extended etc. to serve the needs of target market in a satisfactory manner. Retail format is the popular term used for retail mix. It bears close resemblance with marketing mix. In the ensuing study, discussion about various retail formats is carried on.

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Karamychev, Vladimir, and Peran van Reeven. "Retail sprawl and multi-store firms: An analysis of location choice by retail chains." Regional Science and Urban Economics 39, no. 3 (May 2009): 277–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2008.10.002.

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Hernandez, Tony, and Magnus Svindal. "Emerging Retail Strategies in Urban Canada." International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research 1, no. 2 (April 2010): 19–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jagr.2010020902.

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In this article, the authors examine the spatial distribution of major retail chains across Canada. Using store location data for 2001 and 2006, the geospatial approach adopted in this study allows for the analysis of retail chains’ store portfolios by the size of the resident population of the ‘markets’ within which they operate. The analysis presented highlights the dominance of chain locations within and proximal to Canada’s major urban markets and provides further evidence of increasing interest amongst a number of major chains in ‘small town’ (or ‘C’) markets. It points to a future in which these smaller markets will become more competitive with an increased presence of major retail chains. The findings reported can be seen as the locational imprint of the processes of corporate concentration taking place across Canada, fuelled by the interplay of increased competition, concerns over market saturation and the need to sustain growth.

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Sevtsuk, Andres, and Raul Kalvo. "Patronage of urban commercial clusters: A network-based extension of the Huff model for balancing location and size." Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 45, no. 3 (July 26, 2017): 508–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2399808317721930.

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We introduce a version of the Huff retail expenditure model, where retail demand depends on households’ access to retail centers. Household-level survey data suggest that total retail visits in a system of retail centers depends on the relative location pattern of stores and customers. This dependence opens up an important question—could overall visits to retail centers be increased with a more efficient spatial configuration of centers in planned new towns? To answer this question, we implement the model as an Urban Network Analysis tool in Rhinoceros 3D, where facility patronage can be analyzed along spatial networks and apply it in the context of the Punggol New Town in Singapore. Using fixed household locations, we first test how estimated store visits are affected by the assumption of whether shoppers come from homes or visit shops en route to local public transit stations. We then explore how adjusting both the locations and sizes of commercial centers can maximize overall visits, using automated simulations to test a large number of scenarios. The results show that location and size adjustments to already planned retail centers in a town can yield a 10% increase in estimated store visits. The methodology and tools developed for this analysis can be extended to other context for planning and right-sizing retail developments and other public facilities so as to maximize both user access and facilities usage.

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Trubint, Nikola, Ljubomir Ostojic, and Nebojsa Bojovic. "Determining an optimal retail location by using GIS." Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research 16, no. 2 (2006): 253–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/yjor0602253t.

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Reengineering of retail networks is a continual process that has been in the forefront of management attention worldwide. The central question is how to achieve positive business results under high costs, but at the same time maintain the attained service quality. This reengineering process may be implemented successfully only if preceded by detailed preparations concerning, primarily, the analysis of business results, market potentials and retail outlet location. GIS tools offer a strong support to this process. Apart from theoretical considerations, this paper will also present the use of GIS as a tool in determining the optimal locations of the Serbian post retail.

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Johnson, Daniel K. N., Amy Schultheis, Kristina M. Lybecker, and Devin Nadar. "Buy here, or keep driving? The effect of geographic market density on retail gas prices." Journal of Business 1, no. 2 (March 21, 2016): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.18533/job.v1i2.20.

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Using market data from six midsized U.S. metro areas with similar isolation from neighboring retail markets, this paper examines the effects of location on retail price, while controlling for brand effects. Spatial regression analysis accommodates the potential of spatially correlated errors, and sensitivity analysis tests for several measures of retail location concentration. Results point to reproducible brand premiums and some location-based price differences, but also show the counterintuitive finding that areas with more market competition do not show significantly lower retail gas prices.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Retail Location Analysis"

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鄧麗儀 and Lai-yee Sandy Tang. "Retail location decision analysis: the cases of chain stores." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1995. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31979956.

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Tang, Lai-yee Sandy. "Retail location decision analysis : the cases of chain stores /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1995. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25803517.

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Ozuduru, Burcu H. "An empirical analysis of shopping center locations in Ohio." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1157038477.

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Dickinson, Amie M. "A Spatial-Temporal Analysis of Retail Location and Clustering: A Case Study of Port Huron, MI." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5187/.

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Retail geography is a field of study that is growing in significance and importance within the academic, business, economic, and governmental realms. This study's main focus is on the changing retail environment with regards to business location and function within a small Midwestern city. The research focuses on Port Huron, Michigan because of the growth and shift of the retail community within the city over the past twenty years. The study specifically examines the changing influence and roles of Port Huron's central business district and of Birchwood Mall a retail development opened on the urban area's north end in 1990. The study uses the chi-squared, ANOVA, and cross tabulation statistical tests to analyze the changing geography of retail functions in the city. These statistics are used along with relative entropy equations to distinguish areas of high diversification, changing area functions, and common locations for multiple retail types.

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Dickinson, Amie M. Rice Murray Delbert. "A spatial-temporal analysis of retail location and clustering a case study of Port Huron, MI /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2007. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-5187.

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Sorenson, Matthew R. "Location Analysis of Lifestyle Centers: Uncovering Patterns and Potential Driving Factors behind Site Selection." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2019. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1538760/.

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The shopping center has held an important place in the American economy for decades. However, the concept has seen multiple revolution in terms of format. The most recent shopping center concept to gain rapid popularity is the lifestyle center – an outdoor shopping mall made to resemble a pleasant main street setting, with a tenant mix emphasizing dining and entertainment. In other words, the lifestyle center concept is geared toward selling consumers things to do, versus things to buy. This thesis studies the geography of lifestyle centers in the United States in both the large-scale and small-scale view. Results show that lifestyle centers are concentrated into larger urban areas, often with a population of over 1 million. An analysis of spatial agglomeration revealed that lifestyle centers are often several miles away from the nearest traditional mall, indicating that developers do not feel the need to build near established shopping districts where traditional malls lie. Finally, results concerning trade area characteristics show the characteristics of consumers in areas where lifestyle centers have been built. Findings in this study indicate that developers are utilizing a unique approach when selecting sites for lifestyle centers compared to traditional indoor malls.

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Faienza, Antonio. "Progettazione ed Implementazione di una Dashboard di Location Intelligence in Ambito Retail." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2019. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/19607/.

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La finalità del lavoro svolto è volta alla progettazione e successiva implementazione di una Dashboard di Location Intelligence nell'ambito del fashion retail. La Dashboard oltre a fornire una panoramica generale sull’andamento delle vendite (analisi descrittiva), e ad individuare una possibile correlazione delle vendite con dati interni ed esterni (analisi del potenziale), elabora un modello di Machine Learning che combinato con tecniche di Location Intelligence, consente di riconoscere potenziali punti vendita da immettere sul territorio nazionale (analisi predittiva). Il risultato finale, considera il grado di appetibilità del territorio, escludendo le zone che attualmente già offrono soluzioni e che hanno costituito, insieme all’integrazione di Point of Interest, la base per costruire il modello predittivo.

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Ostrander, Anthony P. "The Expansion of a Retail Chain: An Analysis of Wal-Mart Locations in the United States." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2011. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc68027/.

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Retail geography is an expanding field that is becoming increasingly important within academia, the business environment, and the national and global economy. The focus of this study is to provide insight and additional understanding of the site selection processes employed by Wal-Mart in the United States. The research studies Wal-Mart from a national perspective and investigates the patterns of retail store expansion across the United States from 1990 to 2005. The study employs the use of a continuous Poisson model to check for significant clustering, and a single and multiple correlation analysis to identify the types of relationships that exist between retail stores and location. The results of the study make apparent several distinct patterns of retail store dispersion within the United States between the years 1990 to 2005.

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Niti, Duggal. "Retail Location Analysis: A Case Study of Burger King & McDonald’s in Portage & Summit Counties, Ohio." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1196133312.

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Lao, Yong. "Solving large scale location-spatial interaction models for retail analysis : a GIS-supported heuristic approach /." The Ohio State University, 1993. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487848078450627.

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Books on the topic "Retail Location Analysis"

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Clarke, G. P. Combining theoretical and empirical research in retail location analysis. Leeds: University of Leeds School of Geography, 1986.

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Jones, Kenneth George. Location, location, location: Analysing the retail environment. Toronto: Methuen, 1987.

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Neil, Wrigley, Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain), and Workshop on Methods of Retail Analysis and Forecasting (1986 : University of Bristol), eds. Store choice, store location, and market analysis. London: Routledge, 1988.

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Rogers, David. Retail Location Analysis in Practice (Oxford Reports on Retailing). Cartermill International, 1992.

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Store Choice, Store Location and Market Analysis (Routledge Revivals). Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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Retail market analysis, North Loop Redevelopment Project. [Chicago, Ill.]: Real Estate Research Corp., 1985.

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Book chapters on the topic "Retail Location Analysis"

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Wang, Shuguang, and Paul Du. "Location Analysis and Site Selection of Distribution Centers." In Retail Geography, 206–26. New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003003762-10.

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Wang, Shuguang, and Paul Du. "Market Screening, Retail Location Analysis, and Site Evaluation." In Retail Geography, 126–50. New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003003762-7.

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Zentes, Joachim, Dirk Morschett, and Hanna Schramm-Klein. "Store Location – Trading Area Analysis and Site Selection." In Strategic Retail Management, 229–52. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-10183-1_11.

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Zentes, Joachim, Dirk Morschett, and Hanna Schramm-Klein. "Store Location – Trading Area Analysis and Site Selection." In Strategic Retail Management, 203–25. Wiesbaden: Gabler Verlag, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8349-6740-4_11.

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Yezer, Anthony M., and James W. Gillula. "Modeling the Location of Retail Facilities: An Application to the Postal Service." In Applications of Location Analysis, 243–71. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20282-2_10.

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Birkin, Mark, Graham Clarke, Martin Clarke, and Richard Culf. "Using Spatial Models to Solve Difficult Retail Location Problems." In Applied GIS and Spatial Analysis, 35–54. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/0470871334.ch3.

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Veliyev, Ahmed, Tarlan Abdullayev, Ramiz Alekperov, and Vuqar Salahli. "Solution of the Retail Marketing Problem of Rational Choice of the Location of Trade Enterprises Using the Method of Hierarchy Analysis and Fuzzy Set Theory." In Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 71–79. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64058-3_9.

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Guan, ChengHe, and Peter G. Rowe. "Multi-criteria locational analysis for retail development in small towns." In The Geography of Mobility, Wellbeing and Development in China, 156–71. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. | Series: Routledge advances in regional economics, science and policy: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315112954-12.

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"Retail location analysis." In Applied Geography, 478–90. Routledge, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203012512-44.

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"Retail Restructuring and Retail Analysis." In Store Choice, Store Location and Market Analysis (Routledge Revivals), 23–54. Routledge, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315736686-10.

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Conference papers on the topic "Retail Location Analysis"

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Marcus, Lars, Meta Berghauser Pont, Gianna Stavroulaki, and Jane Bobkova. "Location-based density and diversity – adding attraction variables to space syntax." In 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/isuf2017.2017.5706.

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The central variables in any urban model are distance and attraction (Wilson 2000). Space syntax research has contributed to the development of new geometric descriptions and measures of distance that have proven successful when it comes to capturing pedestrian movement. However, the description and measurement of attractions has not been central to the field. An important exception is the development of Place Syntax analysis, which concerns new methodologies and software that opens for analysis not only of different kinds of accessibilities in the street network in itself, but also analysis of the accessibility within the network to different forms of attractions, for instance, residents or retail (Ståhle et al 2005). Place Syntax analysis is a generic form of analysis, why we may choose to analyse the accessibility to particular socio-economic attractions, but we may also conceive of a model of ‘pure’ spatial form – a kind of architectural model of the city. For instance, Place Syntax analysis has been applied in different kinds of density analysis, transforming density measures from area-based measures to location-based measures (Ståhle et al 2005). In this paper, we extend such spatial attraction to not only include the variable of density but also diversity and present results from an extensive empirical study including four European cities, paving the way towards a more complete architectural model of the city including both the analysis of distance and attractions.

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Pokazannik, Е. V. "“DON VALLEY” WINE-MAKING CLUSTER AS AN ENOGASTROTOURISM DEVELOPMENT SITE: SOCIO-CULTURAL COMPONENT." In STATE AND DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS OF AGRIBUSINESS. DSTU-PRINT, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23947/interagro.2020.1.229-233.

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“Don Valley” is more than a historic or geographic location, - it is an official name of a wine-making area, proposed by Rostov Region administration for consolidation of local wine-makers under the single mega-brand. Specialized regional cluster “Don Valley” is “an association of leading scientific, educational, industrial, engineering and innovative organizations and enterprises of the Rostov region, operating in the following areas: wine-making, manufacturing of components for wineries, scientific-research and educational programmes, development of retail infrastructure, promotion of wine-tasting and gastronomic tourism, and viniculture”3. The creators of the cluster official web-site declare “Made on the Don” brand communication as their primary goal, along with promotion of wine in the region. The article reviews the specifics of Don region from a standpoint of its attractiveness as a tourist destination. The mandatory components are named that together with the enogastronomic sphere can contribute to the growth of demand for tourist routes of various content and duration. The key role of cultural and historic component in successful promotion of the Don winemaking in the tourism market is emphasized. It is noted that enogastrotourism can be developed successfully in Don region through socio-cultural project management based on the thorough analysis of specifics of the region as a whole and its individual components affecting the marketing and advertising solutions.

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Williams, Jack, Reza Alizadeh, Janet K. Allen, and Farrokh Mistree. "Using Network Partitioning to Design a Green Supply Chain." In ASME 2020 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2020-22644.

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Abstract In supply chain network design, a retailer may determine the number and locations of facilities based on the cost of opening the facility, a customer driving to the facility, and a replenishment truck driving to the facility from a warehouse. However, this does not include the system’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Given the existential threat posed by global warming, it is pertinent to consider how the design of the system affects its GHG emissions. We model the supply chain as a network of customers and store locations, with customers driving in cars to and from stores and the retailer resupplying the stores from a central warehouse. The number and location of stores is determined while minimizing the GHG emission. Our contributions are (1) to remove the assumption of uniform demand, and instead build a model of a GSC based on population data; (2) to model the GSC as a two-echelon k-median problem. We conduct a sensitivity analysis to study the effect of a carbon tax in encouraging a greener system considering various scenarios under which emissions might increase or decrease. Specific scenarios lead to a lower overall GHG emission. For example, doubling the fuel efficiency of cars decreases emissions by 46% compared to the baseline scenario. The proposed design approach is not limited to GSC design and can be extended to many design problems, including manufacturing, material design, and healthcare.

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Kruis, Nathanael J., and Matthew K. Heun. "Analysis of the Performance of Earthship Housing in Various Global Climates." In ASME 2007 Energy Sustainability Conference. ASMEDC, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2007-36030.

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Earthships are houses that use walls of recycled automobile tires packed with soil to retain a berm on three sides of the home while glazing on the sunny side (south in the Northern Hemisphere, north in the Southern Hemisphere) allows solar heat into the home’s interior. This paper discusses the design and application of earthships and assesses the feasibility of earthships as sustainable and healthy places of residence. The paper begins by describing the aspects of earthship design which contribute to sustainability, including the construction of the thermal envelope and its effect on the thermal comfort of the occupants; the building’s ability to harness renewable energy; and the catchwater and water reuse system. Each of these aspects is analyzed with computer models that simulate homes in four distinct climate zones to determine (a) whether the design meets the comfort, electrical, and water demand for each location, and (b) the financial implications for construction and operation of an earthship in each location in comparison with a standard wood-frame house. The study shows that earthships are a financially feasible design alternative for dry/arid, humid continental, and continental sub-arctic climates; but are not feasible for tropical wet/dry climates.

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Nemri, Abdelkarim, and Moncef Krarti. "Analysis of Electrical Energy Savings From Daylighting Through Skylights." In ASME 2005 International Solar Energy Conference. ASMEDC, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/isec2005-76077.

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This paper provides a simplified analysis tool to assess the energy saving potential of daylighting for commercial buildings through skylights. Specifically, the impact of daylighting is investigated for various fenestration opening sizes, glazing types, control strategies, and geographic locations. A top floor of a prototypical office building has been considered in the analysis. The results obtained for the office building can be applied to other types of buildings such as retails stores, schools, and warehouses. Based on the simulation analysis results, it was determined that skylight to floor ratio more than 0.3 does not affect significantly the lighting energy savings. An optimum value of skylight to floor area ratio was found to be 0.2 to minimize the annual total building energy use.

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ŠVAGŽDIENĖ, Biruta, and Dalia PERKUMIENĖ. "EVALUATION OF COMPETITIVENESS FACTORS OF RURAL COMMUNITIES." In RURAL DEVELOPMENT. Aleksandras Stulginskis University, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.15544/rd.2017.211.

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Competitiveness, which is inextricably linked to the notion of competition, remains the aim pursued by companies and countries because everyone wants to outsource others and, over time, enjoy the benefits. A successfully competing community based by providing of services has more opportunities to attract and retain visitors, the same time implementing and meeting the needs of community members and ensuring community stability. With the rapid development of innovations and technologies, reveals the necessary to analyse the determinants of competitiveness. The competitiveness of the rural area is reflected by factors such as investment attractiveness, living conditions, attractiveness for the population, geographical location, heritage, culture, the fostering of customs and traditions. In order to assess the factors determining the competitiveness of rural communities, an investigation was organized. Methods chosen for the study: document analysis, SWOT and interviews.

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Poley, Celeste Colberg, and Balakumar Balachandran. "Motion Analysis of Robot Arm With Movement Restriction." In ASME 2016 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2016-65513.

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Medical robots are increasingly being used to assist surgeons during procedures requiring precision. As reported in the literature, surgeons have been opting for minimally invasive surgery, as it reduces patient complications, overall patient recovery time, and hospital time for the patient. Robotic manipulators can be used to overcome natural limitations related to vision and human dexterity, and allow surgeons to transcend these limitations without having to sacrifice improvement in patient outcome. A desirable attribute of surgical robots is maneuverability similar to the human arm. The KUKA DLR Lightweight Robot Arm (LWR), with seven degrees of freedom, retains many of these human-like dexterity traits. Due to the KUKA robot arms maneuverability and flexibility, it is well-suited for intricate tasks based upon motion analyses and modeling of the compliance to path trajectory in addition to the overall smoothness of the path. This robot may be further programmed to be effective and precise for surgical applications. In the studies reported here, a unique Rapidly exploring Randomized Tree (RRT) based path-planning algorithm is developed and this algorithm is used to generate path plans between an initial state and a goal state for simulated models of robotic manipulator arms. Along with constraints, the RRT algorithm has been implemented to find paths for the chosen kinematic or dynamic robotic manipulator arm. Similar techniques are to be used to analyze the KUKA LWR IV+ system. Motion analyses have been carried out with consideration of motion trajectories and all possible locations of the end effector with unique constraints applied to the system. In these simulations, the Denavit-Hartenberg parameters were recorded, with special attention to movement restrictions. The results of the RRT paths generation, analysis of the manipulator arm trajectories, and simulations allow one to better determine the location of the end-effector at any given point in time and location. From this foundation, the generation of path-planning restrictions for the KUKA robots path programming is expected to take into account surgically restricted dangerous or undesirable zones. In future work, the trajectories of the KUKA robot and other manipulator arms are to be compared with the data available in the literature. This work holds promising implications for the improved use of such robot systems in surgical applications. For example, precise pre-programmed robotic movements are expected to be particularly helpful for surgeries in tight, anatomically restricted sites, with adjacent delicate tissues. Ultimately, it is expected that this type of novel robotic application will greatly aid surgeons in improving the precision and safety of surgical procedures, by reducing potential complications and minimizing potential nicks and tears, and working towards giving the surgeons the same ease that they have with traditional surgery.

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Viswanathan, J., D. M. Tilbury, S. J. Hu, and Z. Mao. "Cyberinfrastructure Enabling Personalized Production." In ASME/ISCIE 2012 International Symposium on Flexible Automation. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/isfa2012-7148.

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The Internet has facilitated the development of e-businesses using web-based services leveraging back-end database systems, inventory systems and payment processing systems. Online retail businesses can be set up in a relatively short period of time. In contrast, set-up of a manufacturing system takes much longer; the system design involves various stages from gaining an understanding of the product and its market to machine selection, layout, control logic, part flow analysis and so on. Cyberinfrastructure has the potential to revolutionize the design and operation of manufacturing systems by creating a collaborative environment distributed across a number of physical locations through web-based virtual communities, thereby simplifying and streamlining the manufacturing system design and integration. This paper describes how current technologies could facilitate the implementation of a cyberinfrastructure for manufacturing. A case study describing a current manufacturing system architecture and how a future one would use cyberinfrastructure is used to describe major gaps that exist and standards that need to be developed.

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Czachorski, Marek, John Kelly, and Kevin Olsen. "Heat Recovery From Commercial On-Site Power Generation System: Desiccant Dehumidification vs. Absorption Cooling." In ASME 2003 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2003-42576.

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As commercial building on-site power generation technologies mature to the point of becoming “off-the-shelf” products, the importance of effective heat recovery is demonstrated time and time again in applications where three to six year paybacks typically are necessary to convince building owners to purchase and install these new technologies. This paper explores the effectiveness and economic benefit of different methods of utilizing recoverable heat from on-site power generation equipment in commercial buildings (Cooling, Heating and Power systems – CHP). An optimal configuration of heat recovery options is explored based on analysis of heat recovery from microturbine(s) exhaust to support commercial building heating and cooling/dehumidification needs. Benefits of recovering heat for space heating/domestic hot water production and to support desiccant dehumidification vs. absorption cooling are studied in five different building types (large supermarket, large retail store, medium size office building, full service restaurant and quick service restaurant). Buildings are evaluated at four different geographical locations, allowing additional study of the climatic conditions on the optimum heat recovery system configuration for specific building types. A sophisticated model, incorporating performance algorithms of state-of-the-art power generation, dehumidification and absorption cooling equipment, is used for calculating annual energy/cost savings for CHP systems and optimization of basic parameters, such as generator size/number and heat recovery equipment selection.

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Lefor, Dominik, Jan Kowalski, Boris Kutschelis, Thomas Herbers, and Ronald Mailach. "Optimization of Axial Thrust Balancing Swirl Breakers in a Centrifugal Pump Using Stochastic Methods." In ASME 2014 4th Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting collocated with the ASME 2014 12th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/fedsm2014-21262.

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Hydraulic axial thrust balancing in single-stage radial pumps is a frequently applied procedure to reduce the bearing load to a reasonable level. It leads to considerable efficiency loss, which gives reason to investigate the optimization potential of the common balancing methods. This paper’s focus is on so-called casing ribs, which are used in the default design of an examined industrial pump. Radial vanes on the casing wall of the front impeller side chamber work as swirl breakers by decreasing rotating flow whereby the static pressure at the shroud increases and counteracts the resulting axial thrust. The objective is to retain the reduction of axial thrust and to improve the internal efficiency simultaneously. Therefore a CFD model of the industrial radial pump is created with Ansys CFX. Sufficient numerical quality is ensured whereby consistency is verified by a mesh study. The model is validated by integral values of the characteristic curve and axial thrust measurements as well as by experimental transient static pressure measurement at different locations of the pump flow. Probes are placed in the suction port, the volute and the impeller side chambers, where most balancing methods are implemented. Since the side chamber contains a complex flow, the effect of geometry changes is hard to predict. For this reason a stochastically based sensitivity analysis using a comprehensively parameterized geometry of the front side chamber domain with the included casing ribs is carried out. For this purpose 110 design points are calculated and evaluated with support of the software Optislang. Correlations of parameters are suggested and important parameters regarding the objective are identified. Some reasonable model simplifications are conducted to reduce the computational time. According to the acquired findings a local optimization is executed using the best sample of the sensitivity analysis as start design. An evolutionary algorithm method determines a best design with an efficiency improvement of 0.26 percentage points. It is discussed in detail conclusively.

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Berkowitz, Jacob, Christine VanZomeren, Nia Hurst, and Kristina Sebastian. An evaluation of soil phosphorus storage capacity (SPSC) at proposed wetland restoration locations in the western Lake Erie Basin. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), September 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/42108.

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Historical loss of wetlands coupled with excess phosphorus (P) loading at watershed scales have degraded water quality in portions of the western Lake Erie Basin (WLEB). In response, efforts are underway to restore wetlands and decrease P loading to surface waters. Because wetlands have a finite capacity to retain P, researchers have developed techniques to determine whether wetlands function as P sources or sinks. The following technical report evaluates the soil P storage capacity (SPSC) at locations under consideration for wetland restoration in collaboration with the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) and the H2Ohio initiative. Results indicate that the examined soils display a range of P retention capacities, reflecting historic land-use patterns and management regimes. However, the majority of study locations exhibited some capacity to sequester additional P. The analysis supports development of rankings and comparative analyses of areas within a specific land parcel, informing management through design, avoidance, removal, or remediation of potential legacy P sources. Additionally, the approaches described herein support relative comparisons between multiple potential wetland development properties. These results, in conjunction with other data sources, can be used to target, prioritize, justify, and improve decision-making for wetland management activities in the WLEB.

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