FIRE TRUCK ROUTING TO EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS
IN BURNABY

Table of Contents

1.0 Background Research

1.1 Goal & Purpose of Burnaby's Official Community Plan

1.2 Developments and Renovations to Firehalls as outlined in the OCP
      1.21 Renovations of  Firehalls
      1.22 New Firehalls
      1.23 Priority at hand: Relocation of Firehall #5
      1.24 Current method of Assessing the Optimal location for Firehall #5

1.3 Provision of Public School Facilities as outlined in the OCP
      1.31 Enrolment trend to Education Institutions
      1.32 Response to Enrolment trend

2.0 Hypothesis

3.0 Objective

      3.1 Objective #1
      3.2 Objective #2
      3.3 Objective #3
      3.4 Objective #4

4.0 Methodology

      4.1 Study Area
      4.2 Use GIS instead of Fire departments CAD system
      4.3 Required Data for Analysis

5.0 Data Collection

      5.1 City of Burnaby Mapping Staff
      5.2 Fire Department Chief and Associates
      5.3 Burnaby School District

5.0 Spatial Analysis

      5.1 Preprocessing Required
            5.11 Add Seconds field to Street centre-line theme
            5.12 Add Alternative Proposal location for Firehall #5 to Places theme

      5.2 Calculate Service Area and Network
            5.21 Existing Firehall #5
            5.22 Proposed Firehall #5
            5.23 Alternative Proposal Firehall #5(Calc. Interpolated Grid)

      5.3 Calculate Shortest Route
            5.31 Existing Firehall to Alpha & Burnaby North Secondary
            5.32 Proposed Firehall to Alpha & Burnaby North Secondary
            5.33 Alternative Proposal Firehall to Alpha & Burnaby North Secondary

6.0 Results of the Spatial Analysis

      6.1 Service Area and Service Network
      6.2 Shortest Route
      6.3 Particular Schools serviced for each Service Area
      6.4 Total Student Population serviced for each Service Area

7.0 Methods and Operation Problems

      7.1 Methodological Problems
            7.11 Analysis on Study Area did not consider Effects of Neibouring Features
            7.12 Only considered Density of Student Population as basis for Analysis
            7.13 Schools were Subjectively Selected

      7.2 Operational Problems
            7.21 Difficulty in Editing Data
            7.22 Difficulty in Carrying out Procedures for Network Analyist

8.0 Conclusion

      8.1 Comments on Accuracy
      8.2 Implications for Policy
      8.3 Personal Remarks

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