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A simulation of a police patrol service system with multi-grade time-varying incident arrivals
conference contribution
posted on 2016-06-24, 12:26 authored by Hanjing Zhang, Lisa JacksonLisa Jackson, Antuela TakoAntuela Tako, Jiyin LiuJiyin LiuDue to the squeeze on public expenditure, the funding cuts imposed on the police provide a great impetus to find an efficient incident response sequence with limited resources. This is especially the case for
police response systems which exhibit the characteristics of time-varying volume of demand. In this paper, we investigate two types of priority queues in the patrol service system. Both the incident arrival
rate and the scheduled staff level change with time. For such a system, there is no analytical model available to give close-form performance, so simulation is used for the study. Although dynamic priority
queues which enable more flexibility in setting the sequence of service requests are widely applied in many service systems, such as the NHS service system, the simulation model results show that in police patrol service systems static priority queue performs better.
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- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
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Proceedings of the Operational Research Society Simulation Workshop 2016 (SW16) https://www.theorsociety.com/Pages/Conferences/SW16/SW16.aspxPages
103 - 112 (11)Citation
ZHANG, H. ...et al., 2016. A simulation of a police patrol service system with multi-grade time-varying incident arrivals. IN: Anagnostou, A., Hoad, K. and Kunc, M. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2016 8th Operational Research Society Simulation Workshop (SW16), Stratford, Warks, 11-13th April, pp. 103-112.Publisher
© The Operational Research SocietyVersion
- SMUR (Submitted Manuscript Under Review)
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2016-02-01Publication date
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This is a conference paper.Language
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