Assignment of Jurisdiction Area to Fire Department by Minimizing Welfare Loss

Abstract

In this paper we develop an optimization problem for assignment of jurisdiction area to target facility. We adopt the minimization of welfare loss of customer as the criteria of evaluation. We refine usual formulation of optimization problem for facility location of public sector by introducing the concept of geographical advantage. Such idea leads originality of this study. In numerical example, we show our proposed method can support decision making of assignment problem in the real world by using program with the Google map API.