TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - The fire station location problem: a literature survey
JO  - International journal of emergency management
A1  - Aleisa, Esra
SP  - 291
EP  - 302
VL  - 14
IS  - 3
N2  - Urban fire causes significant threat to the loss of lives and property. The location of a fire station is critical to reduce response time to incident place and eventually increase possibility of beating life-threatening dangerous flashovers. Fuzzy international standards, population density, traffic conditions and distance to other existing fire stations, fire resources and hazardous are some of the criteria considered in the fire station location problem. In this paper, we conduct a thorough literature survey of well-founded research that bring forth methodologies for better fire stations locations. It compares methodologies that adopt fuzzy multi-objective optimisation, maximal coverage, geographic information system (GIS), genetic algorithm (GA), ant algorithm, Tabu search (TS) and simulated annealing (SA) to solve the complex problem with higher efficiency and in due course of increasing possibility of rescue and survival.     Keywords: fire stations; location; response time; mathematical modelling; operations research; optimisation.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1471-4825
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJEM.2018.094239
ID  - ref1
ER  -