- Author
- Carter, G. M. | Chaiken, J. M. | Ignall, E.
- Title
- Response Areas for Two Emergency Units.
- Coporate
- New York City Rand Institute, New York
- Report
- R-532-NYC/HUD, March 1971, 52 p.
- Keywords
- emergencies | response time | fire departments | sensitivity
- Identifiers
- response areas with minimum average response time; sensitivity of findings to model assumptions
- Abstract
- For a model in which two units cooperate in serving a region, the average response time to calls and the workload of each unit are calculated as functions of the boundary which separates their response areas. The boundaries which minimize average response time and the ones which equalize workload are determined. Some boundaries can be dominated, in the sense that another boundary improves both workload balance and response time. The set of undominated boundaries is found.