Efficient and timely response during accidents has received increased attention from practitioners and researchers. The siting of emergency service facilities (ESFs) plays a crucial role in determining the efficiency of safety protection and emergency response. This paper explores a novel multiobjective ant algorithm for the siting of ESFs. With the aid of the geographic information system, the algorithm finds a population of solutions, uses Pareto ranking to sort these solutions, and derives the Pareto front. It is demonstrated that the algorithm successfully captures a pool of nondominated solutions and thereby provides decision makers with a set of alternative solutions. The case study also demonstrates how decision makers may choose one “best” solution from the pool according to their preference or determinant criteria.


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    Title :

    Using the Ant Algorithm to Derive Pareto Fronts for Multiobjective Siting of Emergency Service Facilities


    Additional title:

    Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board


    Contributors:
    Liu, Nan (author) / Huang, Bo (author) / Pan, Xiaohong (author)


    Publication date :

    2005-01-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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