Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are widely accepted as a technology offering an alternative
way to tackle complex and dynamic problems in urban studies. The goal of this article is a …

Police patrol is an effective crime prevention tool and boosts public confidence in urban
security. Many interesting decision making problems appear in route design, resource …

In this paper, we introduce a new spatially constrained clustering problem called the max‐p‐
regions problem. It involves the clustering of a set of geographic areas into the maximum …

Districting is the problem of grou** small geographic areas, called basic units, into larger
geographic clusters, called districts, such that the latter are balanced, contiguous, and …

Over the past 50 years, a wealth of applications has resulted from researchers turning their
attention to operations such as fire suppression, law enforcement and ambulance services …

This paper presents a new method for determining efficient spatial distributions of police
patrol areas. This method employs a traditional maximal covering formulation and an …

Territory design may be viewed as the problem of grou** small geographic areas into
larger geographic clusters called territories in such a way that the latter are acceptable …

In the current economic climate, many police agencies have reduced resources, especially
personnel, with a consequential increase in workload and deterioration in public safety. A …

This article describes a districting study undertaken for the Côte-des-Neiges local
community health clinic in Montreal. A territory must be partitioned into six districts by …

Abstract The Police Districting Problem (PDP) concerns the efficient and effective design of
patrol sectors in terms of performance attributes such as workload, response time, etc. A …