What if we can relocate convenience stores in accordance with fairness.

Convenience stores in Japan become more and more important not only in a normal time but also in a time of disaster. Therefore, locating convenience stores in accordance with fairness becomes very important to enhance safety of a region. In this article, we try to relocate convenience stores in Ueno, Tokyo as a trial experiment. There are 215 convenience stores in Ueno. Usually, we draw voronoi diagrams when estimating “sphere” of certain facility (convenience store), but note that we have to consider not “Euclidean distance” but “Network distance”. When we focus on one sphere and calculate min-sum point of this sphere, the location of convenience store is not correspond toRead More »

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