A city wants to locate 2 new fire fighting ladder trucks to maximize the number of tall
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A city wants to locate 2 new fire fighting ladder trucks to maximize the number of tall buildings which they can cover within a 3 minute response time. The city is divided into 4 zones. The fire chief wants to locate no more than one of the trucks in either Zone 1 or Zone 2. The number of tall buildings in each zone and the travel time between zones is listed below.
| | to zones | | | |
No tall buildings | from zones | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
50 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
90 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
60 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
70 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
a. Write the Mathematical ILP formulation for this problem.
b. Solve the problem using Solver for the optimal value objective function and the locations the fire trucks.
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ISBN: 978-0321925831
3rd edition
Authors: Norean Sharpe, Richard Veaux, Paul Velleman
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