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The average travel time for emergency units such as fire engines, ambulances, and police patrol cars, which respond to spatially distributed incidents, is not necessarily minimized by always dispatching the units closest to each incident.
Assuming arbitrary finite mean-service-time distributions, the distribution of the number of busy units at any time is determined, and the approach to a steady-state distribution is proved.
For a model in which two urban emergency units cooperate in responding to calls from a region that may have inhomogeneously distributed demands and complicated travel times, the expected response time to calls for service and the workload ...
The mathematical proof of a result used in R-532 — concerning the areas served by two emergency units — together with related findings about certain n-unit systems.
In realistic urban environments, emergency response vehicles may encounter one-way streets and barriers such as rivers that impede rapid response.
A survey of current research on the allocation of municipal emergency service systems, with the emphasis on police patrol cars and fire engines and ladders.
Description of urban fire protection studies being conducted jointly by the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) and The New York City-RAND Institute.
Overview of major findings of a study of aids to police patrol decisionmaking.
The state criminal justice planning agencies required by the Crime Control Act of 1968 must, to achieve their objectives, overcome the usual sources of plan failure--resistance of the agencies involved to outside control; separation of planning from ...
A collection of documents concerning slippery water.
An assessment of the potential for black terrorism in the United States.
Procedures for the collection of refined and extended data on relatively large incidents of violence in European cultures over the past two centuries are described. The data have been coded for IBM cards and examined for some basic patterns. Initia...
A Review of [The Crime of Punishment] by Karl Menninger, whose basic thesis is that psychiatry has more functional value within the criminological system than has been hitherto realized. Menninger's suggested reforms for our system include (1) trial...
Part one of this analysis is an empirical test demonstrating the existence of a short-term (15-30 years) and a long-term (80-120 years) periodic fluctuation in the historical occurrence of violence, with the amount of violence used to determine perio...
This paper, presented at the Symposium on Postattack Recovery sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences, challenges the basic axiom, exemplified in the "National Plan for Emergency Preparedness," that direct governmental control of economic activ...
A study to estimate some upper bounds on the magnitude of the flood problem in the postattack environment. It suggests that they can be estimated by considering the maximum floods that have already occurred, for, if large floods do occur, their sever...
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