Complete Study Guide & Practice Questions
The transportation method, when applied to location analysis __________. - ---
✔✔✔ANSWER----minimizes total production and transportation costs
Industrial location analysis typically attempts to __________. - ---
✔✔✔ANSWER----minimize costs
Which of the following is a location analysis technique typically employed by a
service organization? - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Purchasing Power analysis
Governmental attitudes toward issues such as private property, intellectual
property, zoning, pollution, and employment stability may change over time. The
, term associated with this phenomenon is __________. - ---✔✔✔ANSWER-
---political risk
Which of the following is a location-analysis technique typically employed by a
manufacturing organization? - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----transportation method
The reason retail stores are often found in close proximity to each other is
__________. - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----location clustering
Tangible costs include which of the following? - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----taxes
Traffic counts and purchasing power analysis of drawing areas are associated with
__________. - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----a retail or professional service location
decision
When making a location decision at the region/community level, which of these
would be considered? - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Cost and availability of
utilities
The center-of-gravity method does not take into consideration the __________. -
---✔✔✔ANSWER----value of goods shipped