Optimal Location of Consumer Goods Distribution Centers Within the Pachuca City
Abstract
The enormous population growth of the cities in recent years has caused an increase in the demand for goods. In the Pachuca city, capital of the State of Hidalgo (Mexico), we can find a large number of stores, markets and tianguis, in addition to the main supplier of supplies for the general population; the "Central de Abastos" (CA), which has been causing a problem due to its relative proximity to highly populated colonies of high socioeconomic status and other facilities such as the Bus Terminal.
This article presents a proposal for the relocation of the CA, replacing it with distribution centers (CDs) located through a mathematical model of optimization in strategic locations. As a first approximation for the location of the CDs, thirty neighborhoods were taken from the city, as a sample in the study, and by means of a survey in the population, the maximum distance traveled by consumers willing to travel for the supply of inputs was determined. The model´s solution found that there should be four, the least number of CDs located in the neighborhoods of: Santiago Tlapacoya, San Pedro Nopancalco, Lomas de Vista Hermosa and Villas de Pachuca.
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