The Relationship between Fire-Fighting Unit Availability and the Number of Units Dispatched,

Abstract

An important characteristic of a dispatching policy is the number of units sent to an incoming alarm. A common dispatching policy when alarm assignment cards (running cards) are used often sends whichever units are available from a particular group of units. Under this kind of policy, on the average, fewer units will be sent to an alarm in a busy part of the city than to one in a region with low alarm rate. This is a reflection of the reduced unit availability in the busy region. In this paper, a simple quantitative relationship between average availability and average number of units sent is documented.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA022151

Entities

People

  • Edward Ignall
  • Richard Urbach

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Availability
  • Detectors
  • Fire Fighting
  • Fires
  • Reflection
  • Warning Systems

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Applied Combinatorial Optimization and Logic Circuit Design.
  • Fire Suppression Systems Design.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.