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Hierarchical siting of macro fire station and micro fire station

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 2020
With the rapid increase of city building density, public emergency service system for providing fire services faces increasing challenge in reducing the loss of lives and property, especially for the reduction of massive casualties in fire accidents. For obtaining a higher benefit from public service facilities, GIS-based techniques such as location ...
Wenhao Yu, Yujie Chen, Menglin Guan
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Coal-fired Power Stations

2017
Thermal coal-fired power stations currently provide approximately 40% of the world's electricity and 30% of the world's generating capacity. Approximately 83% of all coal demand is thermal coal, and 61% of primary coal energy is consumed in power stations.
Kruitwagen, L, Collins, S, Caldecott, B
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Fire Precautions at Antarctic Stations

Polar Record, 1953
In 1946 the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey station on Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands was completely destroyed by fire. Stores, valuable equipment and the records of many months' work were lost. In 1948 the station at Hope Bay in Trinity Peninsula was burnt down, with the loss of two lives.
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The Siting of Fire Stations

OR, 1968
Perhaps the most important decision facing any Chief Fire Officer is how many fire stations to have and on which sites to build them. It is appreciated that the optimum solution is that which minimizes the sum of the financial loss from fire and the cost of providing the fire brigade.
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Path-Relinking for Fire Station Location

2018
In this paper, we propose the path relinking to solve the maximal covering location problem in which the demand points correspond to number of employees in industrial factories in Rayong, a province on the east coast of the Gulf of Thailand. According to the statistics for the fire in Thailand from 2012–2016; fire events tended upwards continuously ...
Titima Srianan, Ornurai Sangsawang
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