DEVELOPING A MODEL TO FIND SHORTEST ROUTE FOR INCIDENT POINT TO FIRE STATION USING GIS

Civil Engineering

The mission of fire service is to protect life, property, and natural resources from fire and other emergencies. With increasing demands, the fire service must utilize the best tools, techniques, and training methods to meet public expectations. Risk management, preparedness, and mitigation have taken on new importance with challenges facing fire departments today. One emerging tool that is helping the fire service optimize emergency services delivery is geographic information system (GIS) technology. In developed countries GIS has helped fire services reduce risk, increase efficiency, and improve outcomes. Now, more than ever before, fire service executives and information technology professionals are discovering new and creative ways to apply this proven technology to solve ever increasing fire service demands. Here we solve the problem of finding a closest fire station and its shortest path to reach in kolhapur city, Maharashtra State, India. They used the ArcGIS software and network analysis tool that provide the shortest path from one location to another for finding the nearest location of the Fire station from user’s location. The calculations of the shortest path were based on road distances; traffic congestion and state of the roads were not considered. and lastly we create the road and important locations map of kolhapur city.

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