Method for facility location

摘要

An information processing apparatus and a method being performed in the information processing apparatus which includes an input device, an output device, a memory having stored therein geographic information of a region including positional information of existing facilities in the region and positional information of users of the facilities and an information processing device for processing the geographic and positional information. The information processing device performs various processing steps using the geographic information to locate the facilities in the region such that the access times required by the users to access the facilities are within a permissible range.