Simulation Modeling of Fire Station Locations under Traffic Obstacles

Facility location problem involves locating a facility to optimize some performance measures. Location of a public facility to serve the community, such as a fire station, significantly affects its service quality. Main objective in locating a fire station is to minimize the response time, which is the time duration between receiving a call and reaching the place of incident. In metropolitan areas, fire vehicles need to cross highways and other traffic obstacles through some obstacle-overcoming points which delay the response time. In this paper, fire station location problem is analyzed. Simulation models are developed for the location problems which involve obstacles. Particular case problems are analyzed and the results are presented.

Authors:

• Mehmet Savsar

Keywords:

• Public Facility Location
• Fire Stations
• Response Time
• Fire Vehicle Delays.

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