Allocation of Emergency Units: Response Areas,

Abstract

The average travel time for emergency units such as fire engines, ambulances, and police patrol cars, which respond to spatially distributed incidents, is not necessarily minimized by always dispatching the closest available unit (s) to each incident. Methods are described for changing response areas so as to reduce average travel time and also reduce the imbalance of workload among units.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0742396

Entities

People

  • Jan M. Chaiken

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ambulances
  • Emergencies
  • Information Processing
  • Optimization
  • Travel Time
  • Workload

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Economics
  • Trauma or Military Medicine