topic Location Allocation with Weights and Capacity in ArcGIS Network Analyst Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-network-analyst-questions/location-allocation-with-weights-and-capacity/m-p/281708#M2771 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi everyone,</P><P>I have a problem, which is to perform a location allocation activity for facilities, each with a Weight (attractiveness compared to the others) and a maximum Capacity to consider.</P><P>The only types of problems that consider weights are those of market share (Maximize and Target).<BR />The capacity is instead respected only in Maximize the coverage capacity.</P><P></P><P>How to perform an activity that takes into account both constraints?</P><P></P><P>Thanks in advance,</P><P>Gianni</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 10 Sep 2020 10:21:02 GMT GianniContino 2020-09-10T10:21:02Z Location Allocation with Weights and Capacity https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-network-analyst-questions/location-allocation-with-weights-and-capacity/m-p/281708#M2771 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi everyone,</P><P>I have a problem, which is to perform a location allocation activity for facilities, each with a Weight (attractiveness compared to the others) and a maximum Capacity to consider.</P><P>The only types of problems that consider weights are those of market share (Maximize and Target).<BR />The capacity is instead respected only in Maximize the coverage capacity.</P><P></P><P>How to perform an activity that takes into account both constraints?</P><P></P><P>Thanks in advance,</P><P>Gianni</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 10 Sep 2020 10:21:02 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-network-analyst-questions/location-allocation-with-weights-and-capacity/m-p/281708#M2771 GianniContino 2020-09-10T10:21:02Z Re: Location Allocation with Weights and Capacity https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-network-analyst-questions/location-allocation-with-weights-and-capacity/m-p/281709#M2772 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>As you noted, Location-Allocation does not provide a model that takes both capacity and attractiveness into account. Usually attractiveness is in used in retail industry where the retail establishment usually do not have a capacity of customers they want to deal with. Can you describe your use case? How should these two properties impact the location decision?</P><P></P><P>Jay Sandhu</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 02 Oct 2020 19:26:42 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-network-analyst-questions/location-allocation-with-weights-and-capacity/m-p/281709#M2772 JaySandhu 2020-10-02T19:26:42Z