|
Track: Emergency Management and Public Safety
Derren Duburguet
San Diego Data Processing Corporation
5975 Santa Fe Street
San Diego, CA 92109
Telephone: 619-581-9746
Fax: 619-581-9617
E-mail: dpcdud@mainruis.sannet.gov
Laura Brenner
Emergency Response Management in the City of San Diego
Defining Issue: Creating the emergency response data required for the Computer Automated Dispatch (CAD) system by using the Regional Urban Information System (RUIS) road coverage of San Diego. GIS Solution: The San Diego Fire Department and San Diego Data Processing Corporation developed an application in ArcInfo that utilizes the network functionality within ARCPLOT to generate routes between fire stations and geographical areas known as fire demand zones (FDZ). Methodology: The Emergency Response Management System (ERMS) uses networking algorithms to perform point-to-point routing and allocation analysis. ERMS also includes the Fire Demand Zone coverage, which subdivides the cities of San Diego and Poway into 3,240 smaller geographical units or polygons. By performing routing analysis between the fire stations and these demand zones, the San Diego Fire Department is able to generate larger districts based on response time and/or responding unit. In addition, ERMS calculates the first through
fiftieth fire station to respond to each FDZ and records this information in a file that is later used by the CAD system. Software: The ERMS application is created from a hybrid of custom AMLs and ArcTools and is currently implemented on a UNIX platform. The purpose of this paper, however, will be to focus on how the route-specific coverages and the CAD response files are generated and utilized.
|
|
