Project Description
Interdisciplinary pilot study on plant, location and network planning
Responsible
- Christoph Johannes
Project Partners
- Leibniz Universität Hannover:
- Manufacturing Engineering Research Centre Niedersachsen
- Technische Universität Braunschweig:
- Automotive Management and Industrial Production
Initial Situation and Problem
In the next years business and society are facing an increasing urbanization. Related to estimations for the year 2030 about 60% of the population and for the year 2050 about 70% of the population will live in cities. As a result of this urbanization the social structure in the cities of the metropolitan area will develop in a different way compared to the less populated rural areas. Another consequence of the urbanization is the different development of infrastructure and education within one metropolitan area. Moreover the fast increasing, high populated urban areas have a permanent shortage of free parcels of land, whereas in rural areas a factory planning on Greenfield land is often possible. Thus, besides the global facility location selection business has to decide at which location within the selected metropolitan area a new plant will be built. However, existing facility location selecting models are suitable for a global facility location selection but they cannot be used for a regional facility location selection.
Objectives and Approach
The long-term aim of the research group is to develop a decision model for the selection of a location within a metropolitan area. The decision model should support business in selecting a location considering business-intern aspects and business-extern influencing variables. Moreover the decision model should show how politics can influence the development of the metropolitan area with incentives and subsidies. In this project the metropolitan area of Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg is focused.
In this pilot study should be analyzed initially which types of plants, locations and networks exist in the here considered metropolitan area. Moreover the crucial reasons of business for the selection of one location within the metropolitan area have to be considered and the interaction of these reasons has to be analyzed. Besides the consideration of business, which is given through several surveys and plant visits, the opinion and experience of political and scientific experts have to be included. Finally a DFG research request for the development of a decision model for the selection of a plant location will be developed.