Fairness in accessibility of public service facilities

Our paper studies a fair stochastic facility location problem with congestion under the max-min principle. We analyze the price of fairness in a two-location problem and develop a tractable optimization framework for the general multi-location setting. Evaluating the fair solution against the utilitarian solution on Buffalo's demographic data reveals that implementing a fair solution can substantially improve fairness measures (up to 98%) with relatively limited impact on the overall service quality.