The Location of Emergency Service Facilities

Constantine Toregas; Ralph Swain; Charles ReVelle; Lawrence Bergman

doi:10.1287/opre.19.6.1363

The Location of Emergency Service Facilities

Constantine Toregas¹; Ralph Swain¹; Charles ReVelle²; Lawrence Bergman³

¹ Cornell University, Ithaca, New York · ² The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland · ³ Dansker Company, New York, New York

Operations Research 1971

This paper views the location of emergency facilities as a set covering problem with equal costs in the objective. The sets are composed of the potential facility points within a specified time or distance of each demand point. One constraint is written for each demand point requiring “cover,” and linear programming is applied to solve the covering problem, a single-cut constraint being added as necessary to resolve fractional solutions.

DOI: 10.1287/opre.19.6.1363
Volume: 19 (6)
Pages: 1363-1373
Language: en
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