The Location of Emergency Service Facilities

Constantine Toregas, Ralph Swain, Charles ReVelle and Lawrence Bergman
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Constantine Toregas: Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Ralph Swain: Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Charles ReVelle: The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
Lawrence Bergman: Dansker Company, New York, New York

Operations Research, 1971, vol. 19, issue 6, 1363-1373

Abstract: This paper views the location of emergency facilities as a set covering problem with equal costs in the objective. The sets are composed of the potential facility points within a specified time or distance of each demand point. One constraint is written for each demand point requiring “cover,” and linear programming is applied to solve the covering problem, a single-cut constraint being added as necessary to resolve fractional solutions.

Date: 1971
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