Facility location models and school mapping : a proposal for the Philippines / Ligaya Leah Lara-Figueroa.

Facility location models (FLMs) were introduced in the early 1900’sas a systematic and scientific method of predicting location. Since then, it has received numerous attention from various fields as a logical and mathematical approach to solve different types of location problems. One of the applications of FLMs is school mapping. In this article, we conduct an inventory of FLMs by means of exploring the various FLM classifications. We then review how FLMs were used in the context of a school mapping process. We also examine the conflicting factors considered by education planners and stakeholders in several countries. We see that a unified facility location model with barriers and forbidden regions seem to be appropriate but have not been applied in school mapping thus far. This type of model seems to be applicable in rural Philippine situations.