Mathematical Programming Applications in the Analysis of the Deployment and Utilization of Fire-Fighting Resources,

Abstract

The paper gives a brief review of some applications of mathematical programming in the analysis of the deployment of fire engines. The author discusses a semi-Markov decision process (linear programming) formulation of the problem of deciding how many fire engines to dispatch to a new alarm, a staged integer programming formulation of the problem of relocating fire engines to rebalance city-wide protection when extremely large fires deplete part of the city, and simple non-linear integer programming formulations of strategic resource allocation problems. All analyses have resulted in policy recommendations that have influenced current operations of the New York City Fire Department. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0768077

Entities

People

  • Peter Kolesar

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Mathematics
  • Computer Programming
  • Deployment
  • Fire Fighting
  • Fires
  • Integer Programming
  • Interdisciplinary Science
  • Linear Programming
  • Mathematical Programming
  • Mathematics
  • New York
  • Operations Research
  • Systems Science
  • Warning Systems

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Fire Suppression Systems Design.
  • Operations Research
  • Strategic Security Studies