- Author
- Fernandez, A. A. | Jacobs, D. A. | Kauffman, P. R. | Keating, C. B. | Sizemore, D. C.
- Title
- Assessing Community Fire Risk: A Decision Analysis Based Approach.
- Report
- Chapter 6
- Book or Conf
- Special Problems in Fire Protection Engineering. Volume 4. Chapter 6. Applied Fire Science in Transition Series, Baywood Publishing Co. Inc., Amityville, NY, DeCicco, P. R., Editors, 73-91 p., 2002
- Keywords
- fire protection engineering | fire risk | decision analysis | fire risk assessment | fire models | structures | building codes | occupants | factors | probability
- Identifiers
- Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP); grouping structures within the fire district; AHP as a tool for developing fire consequence values; summary descriptions of BOCA codes; summayr of factor intensities; pairwise comparison scale; determining relative importance through expert elicitation; pairwise comparison matrix: concentration factor; determining the consequence for each BOCA code; probability of fire; summary of derived consequence values; probability of fire by BOCA code; fire risk potential of structures; derivation of a single valued risk metric; scaled risk measures; grouping structures into risk classes