Article ID: | iaor19911474 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 36 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 16 |
End Page Number: | 23 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1990 |
Journal: | Management Science |
Authors: | Batta Rajan, Mannur Narasimha R. |
Keywords: | government, programming: integer, sets |
In this paper the authors propose a new criterion for coverage which is suitable for two kinds of applications: (i) location of fire trucks in a geographical area in which some demands require multiple fire trucks to be within an acceptable distance standard to achieve coverageff and (ii) location of ambulances in an environment in which a large demand volume often leads to the unavailability of the most desirable response unit. The set covering location problem and the maximal covering location problem are examined in the proposed modeling framework. Properties for these models are developed, and limited computational experience is reported.