| Article ID: | iaor198868 |
| Country: | Germany |
| Volume: | 32 |
| Start Page Number: | 299 |
| End Page Number: | 306 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1988 |
| Journal: | Mathematical Methods of Operations Research (Heidelberg) |
| Authors: | Cuninghame-Greene R.A., Harries G. |
A policy for allocating each demand for an emergency service, arising within a region, to a currently available one of a set of services units, so as to minimise overall average response time, results in a straightforward generalisation of the elementary nearest-neighbour rule.