Network Strategies to Service a Set of Locations

The above figure presents six different ways to link five locations.

• (A) is the minimum construction costs network where all locations a linked.
• (B) is the minimum operation costs network.
• (C) is a nodal network favoring one location at the expense of others.
• (D) is the maximum accessibility network. Every location is directly linked to all others but the construction costs are maximal.
• (E) is least length network where the summation of the links are minimal.
• (F) is the traveling salesman network. It provides minimal distance for a route between all locations.