Article ID: | iaor2004224 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 32 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 69 |
End Page Number: | 74 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2002 |
Journal: | Interfaces |
Authors: | Hewitt Richard L. |
Keywords: | facilities, equipment, location |
Gaining acceptance for the location of a new fire station depends on more than the minimization-of-response-time data. In this case, the technical solution took a back seat to political, interpersonal, and perception-based issues. Fourteen years ago I became a firefighter to learn how those issues affect the acceptance of a new location and, in the process, developed a firestation-siting method that is still used today by the City and County of Denver. I did this work while I was a student in Gene Woolsey's operations research guild at the Colorado School of Mines.