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OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND THE PUBLIC SECTOR
Edited by S.M. Pollock, M.H. Rothkopf and A. Barnett

CHAPTER 6
The Deployment of Police, Fire, and Emergency Medical Units
A.J. Swersey

1. Introduction*

2. The characteristics of emergency service problems

3. The pitfalls of traditional approaches: two examples

4. The relationship between measures of effectiveness and system performance

5. The number of units needed in a region

6. Deterministic location models

7. Probabilistic location, districting and dispatching models

8. Staffing and scheduling

9. Emergency service mergers

10. Discussion

References

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