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Title: Generalized Hypercube Queueing Model for Locating Emergency Response Vehicles in Urban Transportation Networks
Accession Number: 01025452
Record Type: Component
Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Abstract: Emergency response systems in urban areas should be located in such a way to ensure adequate coverage as well as a rapid response time. We developed a model for locating emergency vehicles on urban networks based on a generalization of the Hypercube Queuing Model. The proposed model considers spatial and temporal characteristics of demand such as the possibility that a server is not always available when its service is required, and the service rates are not identical and may be variable both among servers and incident characteristics. The model is applied for locating tow-away vehicles on the I-80 freeway in the San Francisco Bay Area and the results are compared with existing coverage and median models. The results show an improvement in the mean response time especially in cases of high demand for intervention.
Monograph Title: Monograph Accession #: 01020180
Report/Paper Numbers: 06-1724
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Skabardonis, AlexanderKarlaftis, Matthew GGeroliminis, NikolasPagination: 21p
Publication Date: 2006
Conference:
Transportation Research Board 85th Annual Meeting
Location:
Washington DC, United States Media Type: CD-ROM
Features: Figures
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; References
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TRT Terms: Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning
Source Data: Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2006 Paper #06-1724
Files: BTRIS, TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Mar 3 2006 10:46AM
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