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Approximating the Performance of Urban Emergency Service Systems

Larson, Richard C.·1975·Operations Research
DOI 10.1287/opre.23.5.845
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This paper presents an approximate procedure for computing selected performance characteristics of an urban emergency service system. Based on a recently developed hypercube queuing model, the procedure requires for N servers solution of only N simultaneous equations, rather than 2 N as in the exact model. The procedure relies on the theory of M/M/N queues in which servers are selected randomly and without replacement until the first available (free) server is found. The underlying model is intended for analyzing problems of vehicle location and response district design in urban emergency services, includes interdistrict as well as intradistrict responses, and allows computation of several point-specific as well as area-specific performance measures.

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Authors
Larson, R. C.
Venue
Operations Research
Publisher
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
Published
1975-10
Volume
23
Issue
5
Pages
845-868
ISSN
  • 0030-364X (ISSN-L)
  • 1526-5463
DOI
10.1287/opre.23.5.845
OpenAlex
W2000670787
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366
References
3
FWCI
5.45
Type
journal article
Language
en
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