- Author
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Larson, R. C.
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Stevenson, K. A.
- Title
- On Insensitivites in Urban Redistricting and Facility Location.
- Coporate
- Rand Institute, New York City, NY
- Report
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R-533-NYC/HUD
March 1971
29 p.
- Keywords
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fire departments
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fire fighting vehicles
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emergencies
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response time
- Identifiers
- approximate bounds on performance; districting a region with N fixed facilities; facility location - two independent districts; facility location - two cooperating districts
- Abstract
- In this report we consider one class of problems associated with urban service systems which dispatch vehicles from fixed facilities. Given the limited resources available, one important issue is the location of the facilities and the design of their response districts to minimize average response time in the face of spatially distributed demand pattens.