Siting a fire station by leveraging soft constraints and supporting science

Siting a fire station by leveraging soft constraints and supporting science

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Article ID: iaor2004224
Country: United States
Volume: 32
Issue: 4
Start Page Number: 69
End Page Number: 74
Publication Date: Jul 2002
Journal: Interfaces
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Keywords: facilities, equipment, location
Abstract:

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.

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