Question

A town government is designing a new bus system. The planners are deciding where to put the different bus stops. They want to pick a set of bus stop locations that will minimize the distance anyone needs to walk in order to get to any bus stop in town. What term best defines this kind of problem

Answer 1

Optimisation Problem

Explanation:

Optimisation Problem is a mathematical economics, computer science problem - which finds the best solution from all feasible solutions (based on constraints & other aspects).

The problem might be in form of maximisation or minimisation. The bus system designing is based on minimizing walking distance. Thus is an optimisation problem.