Siting a Fire Station by Leveraging Soft Constraints and Supporting Science

Richard L. Hewitt ()
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Richard L. Hewitt: Solution Implementation Specialists, Denver, Colorado

Interfaces, 2002, vol. 32, issue 4, 69-74

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 fire-station-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.

Keywords: Government: services; Facilities: equipment planning; location (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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