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Characteristics of service requests and service processes of fire and rescue service dispatch centers : Analysis of real world data and the underlying probability distributions

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Characteristics of service requests and service processes of fire and rescue service dispatch centers : Analysis of real world data and the underlying probability distributions

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Author	Krueger, Ute Schimmelpfeng, Katja
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	A sufficient staffing level in fire and rescue dispatch centers is crucial for saving lives. Therefore, it is important to estimate the expected workload properly. For this purpose, we analyzed whether a dispatch center can be considered as a call center. Current call center publications very often model call arrivals as a non-homogeneous Poisson process. This bases on the underlying assumption of the caller’s independent decision to call or not to call. In case of an emergency, however, there are often calls from more than one person reporting the same incident and thus, these calls are not independent. Therefore, this paper focuses on the dependency of calls in a fire and rescue dispatch center. We analyzed and evaluated several distributions in this setting. Results are illustrated using real-world data collected from a typical German dispatch center in Cottbus (“Leitstelle Lausitz”). We identified the Pólya distribution as being superior to the Poisson distribution in describing the call arrival rate and the Weibull distribution to be more suitable than the exponential distribution for interarrival times and service times. However, the commonly used distributions offer acceptable approximations. This is important for estimating a sufficient staffing level in practice using, e.g., the Erlang-C model.
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Ending Page	13
Page Count	13
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13869620
Journal	Health Care Management Science
Volume Number	16
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15729389
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2012-08-23
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Dispatch center Emergency medical services (EMS) Emergency call Pólya distribution Dependency of calls Arrival rates Operations Research/Decision Theory Health Administration Health Informatics Management/Business for Professionals Econometrics Business/Management Science
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Health Professions Medicine

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