A methodology for consolidating fire services with traffic signal preemption

Lin Wang; Bryan A. Norman; Ming En Wang

A methodology for consolidating fire services with traffic signal preemption

Lin Wang, Bryan A. Norman, Ming En Wang

Industrial Engineering

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Abstract

Many cities in US are facing the difficult decision of closing some of their firehouses due to budget cuts. Average response times are used to measure the effect of closure of firehouses. With the money saved with firehouse closures, Traffic Signal Preemption (TSP) equipment can be installed to alleviate increases in response times. In this paper, methods are presented to decide which firehouses to close in order to minimize the increase in response times and which traffic signals should receive preemption capability if TSP deployment is considered. Experimental results based on the City of Pittsburgh are presented for two scenarios.

Original language	English
State	Published - 2005
Event	IIE Annual Conference and Exposition 2005 - Atlanta, GA, United States Duration: May 14 2005 → May 18 2005

Conference

Conference	IIE Annual Conference and Exposition 2005
Country/Territory	United States
City	Atlanta, GA
Period	05/14/05 → 05/18/05

Keywords

Emergency service
Network design
Traffic preemption
Transportation

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