We formulate and solve two resource allocation problems motivated by a preparedness question of emergency response services. First, we consider the assignment of vehicles to stations, and, in a second step, assign crews to vehicles. In both cases, we work in a minimax framework and define the objective function for a spatial catchment area as the total risk in this area per resource unit allocated to it. The solutions are explicit and can be calculated in practice by a greedy algorithm that successively allocates a resource unit to an area having maximal relative risk, with suitable tie breaker rules. The approach is illustrated on a data set of incidents reported to the Twente Fire Brigade.
@article{arxiv.2601.16702,
title = {Resource Allocation Based on Past Incident Patterns},
author = {M. N. M. van Lieshout},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.16702},
year = {2026}
}