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Larson, Richard Charles was born on April 10, 1943 in New York City. Son of Gilbert C. and Muriel A. (Eriksen) Larson.
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A comprehensive manual on urban operations research including door to door pick up (waste collection, parcel delivery), emergency response services (police, fire, medical), public transportation, maintenance and shuttle services.
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In the urban centers of the United States hundreds of millions of dollars are spent annually on police patrol forces, deployed for the maintenance of public safety. Despite this vast expenditure of public funds, little is known about the effectiveness of current patrol strategies and about the incorporation of computers and other technological devices into patrol planning. In Urban Police Patrol Analysis, Professor Larson combines his knowledge of metropolitan police forces with the analytical processes of operations research to devise a wide range of quantitative models that bear on police patrol. These include models of the patrol and response functions that indicate the effectiveness of a particular patrol allocation and allow the comparison of different allocations, patrol strategies, and response strategies. Also included is the description of a recently implemented simulation model that allows the planner to predict the consequences of a wide variety of complex patrol procedures without having to disrupt current police operations. The opening chapters of the book provide the background to many of the problems related to police patrol and outline the issues that require analysis. A special chapter simulates a group of planners and analysts in a hypothetical city who are engaged in redesigning patrol and dispatch operation. In following the group's work through the model building, designing, testing, and implementation stages, the reader is given a preview of models developed in later chapters and an outline of the process by which the technical analyst and the police planner can combine to produce innovations for implementation. The six technical chapters that follow develop and discuss the details of models of police response time, preventive patrol effectiveness, workload distribution, dispatch delays, inter-sector cooperation, and a number of other performance measures. Included is an evaluation of automatic vehicle location systems, indicating potential advantages of revising patrol deployments when car positions are known to dispatchers. Each chapter includes a nontechnical summary to guide the reader. Numerous references to related works are provided in footnotes and the work contains an annotated bibliography which, at this writing, is the most complete information available on the field of quantitative police patrol management. Most of the methods presented in Urban Police Patrol Analysis have been developed recently and are the first efforts in the application of mathematical modeling to police patrol. As such they represent a major improvement over inadequate traditional methods, and accordingly, this book will be invaluable to police patrol administrators, technical advisors and consultants to police departments, criminal justice planners, staffs of city management, operations researchers who are involved in public systems problems, students of law enforcement, and operations research studies of public systems problems.
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The book covers a wide variety of applied operations research in a way not seen elsewhere. With an emphasis on model building, not theorem proving, the book starts with a review applied probability and contains material on geometrical probability not easily accessible elsewhere. Spatial as well as temporal Poisson processes are covered in depth. Then the applied probability is put to good use in a chapter devoted to queueing models. This is a stand-alone introduction to queueing theory that may be useful in a variety of courses, just as the geometrical probability segment has stand-alone value. The next chapter is a unique tour of spatial queues, combining geometrical probability concepts with models of queues from previous chapters. The core of the chapter is development of the Hypercube Queueing model, a model that -- 31 years after its original development -- remains the gold standard in modeling municipal emergency services such as police, emergency medical and fire departments. The homework problems at the end of this chapter are the most challenging in the book, many worthy of the most advanced doctoral students. The book then shifts slightly from primarily probabilistic models to a combination of probabilistic and deterministic models, focusing on transportation networks analysis. This graph-focused chapter develops rigorous results by intuitive visual arguments, not abstract algebraic theorem proving. It too is a stand-alone chapter, the longest and most comprehensive in the book. There follows a brief chapter on the theory and mechanics of Monte Carlo simulation. This is good material even for people who use packaged simulation software, as it focuses on fundamentals and issues to think about even when using packaged software. The book concludes with a unique chapter on implementation, based on the personal experiences of the authors and their students in attempting to implement the models, methods and philosophies of the book.
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educator researcher electrical engineer
Larson, Richard Charles was born on April 10, 1943 in New York City. Son of Gilbert C. and Muriel A. (Eriksen) Larson.
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1965. Master of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1967. Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1969.
Member faculty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, since 1969;
assistant professor electrical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1969-1971;
assistant professor urban studies and planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1971-1972;
associate professor urban studies and planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1972-1979;
associate professor electrical engineering and computer science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1972-1979;
professor electrical engineering and urban studies and planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1977-1986, 91-. Co-director Operations Research Center, 1977-1986, since 1991. Visiting associate professor operations research University of California, Berkeley, 1976.
Founder, president Public Systems Evaluation, Inc., 1974-1990. Co-founder, president Enforth Corporation, 1981-1990. Founder, chairman QUEUES Lieutenant, 1989-1990.
Co-founder, chairman Queues Euforth Development, Inc. Consultant to business firms, educational institutions and government agys., since 1965, guest lecturer various colleges, professional groups, since 1966. Visiting professor Technology U. Denmark, 1981.
Invited lecturer, Italy, Venezuela, Russia, Mexico.
(A comprehensive manual on urban operations research inclu...)
(In the urban centers of the United States hundreds of mil...)
(The book covers a wide variety of applied operations rese...)
Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Academy Engineering, Operations Research Society of America (president), Institute Management Science, Sigma Xi, Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi.
Married Elizabeth Murray, June 20, 1979. 2 sons, 1 daughter.