A Resectorization of Fire Brigades in the North of Portugal

Abstract

Sectorization: division of a region into smaller regions.Resectorization: to achieve another division of a region according to some new conditions but avoiding substantial changes, maintaining some degree of similarity between the solutions.Capacity of each fire brigade (c i ): Demand of each subregion (s j ):A i -number of ambulances in brigade i V i -number of fighting vehicles in brigade i P j -adimensional population in subregion j E i -adimensional number of firefighters in brigade i Q j -adimensional area of subregion j g 1 , g 2 -constant parameters