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Information Sheet 1 Weber’s Model The Weberian model assumes that factory owners are economic rational and aim at locating their factories on the least cost locations. There is only one single factory locating over an uniform plain. Transport cost is directly proportional to distance and weight. The ways of finding out the least cost location are: - find out the transport cost of different locations - compare the cost after adding the saving from labour cost - add in the benefit of agglomeration and at last determinate the least total cost location Webers model find out the transport cost by a