Study on Optimum Allocation System of Fire Stations and Fire Engines

Abstract

In this study, I presented the optimization methods concerning the allocation of fire stations and fire engines, and developed them as an application software for a personal computer. For the allocation of fire stations, using the ratio of fires that fire pumpers were able to reach within a fixed time as an objective function, I obtained two results of optimum allocation by mathematical programming and hill-climbing method. And, I confirmed that there was little difference between the two . Hill-climbing method is good for programming easily, and widely applicable to nonlinear problems, though this is a local optimization method. Additionally, I presented the unified optimum methods for the allocation of five kinds of main fire engines by the same idea as the case of fire stations.