Response Time Analysis of Firefighting Operations Using Discrete Event Simulation

Author

Aleisa, Esra ; Savsar, Mehmet

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ind. & Manage. Syst. Eng., Kuwait Univ., Safat, Kuwait

fYear

2014

Firstpage

330

Lastpage

334

Abstract

This paper reports the results of applying discrete event simulation on fire fighting operations in the State of Kuwait. The objective is to reduce the response times to reach fires in all districts to below five minutes. Other performance measures included response time/utilization, number of incidents exceeding ten minutes/utilization. Both are critical for decision making. An improved system reduced the average response from 7.3 minutes to around 3 minutes. The Simulation of the output runs were analyzed using ANOVA. The results were validated at 95% confidence level. Simulation turned to be an excellent tool for testing different alternatives efficiently without disturbing ongoing fire fighting operations.

Keywords

decision making; discrete event simulation; emergency services; fires; statistical analysis; ANOVA; decision making; discrete event simulation; firefighting operations; performance measures; response time analysis; response utilization; Analytical models; Computational modeling; Fires; Genetic algorithms; Programming; Time factors; ANOVA; Simulation; firefighting; response time;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Modelling and Simulation (UKSim), 2014 UKSim-AMSS 16th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-4923-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/UKSim.2014.82

Filename

7046087