Citation

Yasukawa MK, Gagliardi FM. Fire Technol. 1988; 24(4): 291-298.

Affiliation

City of Chicago Fire Department, Research and Planning Division, City Hall, 121 North LaSalle St., 60602 Chicago, IL, USA

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/BF01040045

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The Chicago Fire Department conducted road tests to measure fire apparatus speeds in various areas of the city for the purpose of estimating input to a computer-simulated fire apparatus transportation network. This network was then processed by a minimum path algorithm, and the estimated speeds were used along each path to compute emergency response travel times. These emergency response travel times were used for purposes such as site planning, deployment evaluation, and analyses of citywide fire protection coverage. A review of the literature provided insights explaining apparatus speeds, but little in the way of practical information for purposes of network travel time analysis. This paper describes the Chicago road test methodology, and shares the results of the study.