IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/isochp/978-3-319-20282-2_14.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Shape and Balance in Police Districting

In: Applications of Location Analysis

Author

Listed:
  • Victor Bucarey

    (Universidad de Chile)

  • Fernando Ordóñez

    (Universidad de Chile)

  • Enrique Bassaletti

    (Carabineros de Chile)

Abstract

Districting is a classic design problem when attempting to provide an efficient service to a geographically dispersed demand. There exists a natural trade-off between aggregation, which allows the pooling of resources, and individualization, where each individual demand has its own resources and response is as efficient as possible. Police and security providers are no strangers to this phenomenon. Having a single set of resources to satisfy the demand over an entire service area avoids the duplication of resources, coordination problems, and uneven workloads that can occur in districting. However, when the service area is large, service times at certain locations can exceed acceptable levels, making it more attractive to service this demand from distributed resources. Furthermore, districting allows for specialization of the resources to efficiently service a diverse demand in different areas. Such specialization causes additional complexity if managed from a centralized pool of resources. This creates the basic problem of separating a demand area into subregions to organize the service process.

Suggested Citation

  • Victor Bucarey & Fernando Ordóñez & Enrique Bassaletti, 2015. "Shape and Balance in Police Districting," International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, in: H. A. Eiselt & Vladimir Marianov (ed.), Applications of Location Analysis, edition 1, chapter 14, pages 329-347, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:isochp:978-3-319-20282-2_14
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-20282-2_14
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:isochp:978-3-319-20282-2_14. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.