This is probably the hardest general project the ER team has looked at so far, though it has potential to be high-impact.
From Ryanc's 12/21/2017 notes:
Each has fire block as an associated response order for emergency vehicles
Does this order make sense given the drivetime/response time from station to scene of incident?
Does the order make sense given available resources at each station?
I believe the only way we could answer these questions with any authority is by implementing a reasonably accurate simulator (see: #2, and the OSU research) and trying to find alternative configurations for the PF&R policies, given whatever options they'd allow us to suggest tweaking.
This would require significant hours invested in creating and testing a simulator, as well as significant hours invested in implementing a tool (w/machine learning?) to analyze the solution space and suggest alternatives.
This is probably the hardest general project the ER team has looked at so far, though it has potential to be high-impact.
From Ryanc's 12/21/2017 notes:
I believe the only way we could answer these questions with any authority is by implementing a reasonably accurate simulator (see: #2, and the OSU research) and trying to find alternative configurations for the PF&R policies, given whatever options they'd allow us to suggest tweaking.
This would require significant hours invested in creating and testing a simulator, as well as significant hours invested in implementing a tool (w/machine learning?) to analyze the solution space and suggest alternatives.
Pretty nifty, though.