The Relationship between Fire-Fighting Unit Availability and the Number of Units Dispatched.
ResearchPublished 1975
An important characteristic of a dispatching policy is the number of units sent to an incoming alarm. A common dispatching policy when alarm assignment cards (running cards) are used often sends whichever units are available from a particular group of units. Under this kind of policy, on the average, fewer units will be sent to an alarm in a busy part of the city than to one in a region with low alarm rate. This is a reflection of the reduced unit availability in the busy region. In this paper, a simple quantitative relationship between average availability and average number of units sent is documented. This relationship is used in a model described in R-1649, [A Parametric Model for the] [Allocation of Fire Companies: Users'] [Handbook]. 7 pp.
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Ignall, Edward and Richard Urbach, The Relationship between Fire-Fighting Unit Availability and the Number of Units Dispatched. RAND Corporation, P-5420, 1975. As of September 11, 2024: https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P5420.html
Ignall, Edward and Richard Urbach, The Relationship between Fire-Fighting Unit Availability and the Number of Units Dispatched. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1975. https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P5420.html. Also available in print form.
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