Modeling of residential structure fire response: Exploring the hyper‐project
研究住宅火灾响应中的操作层面问题，提出“超项目”概念，即项目结构会因外部时间约束而动态变化，对应急管理和项目管理领域有参考价值。
Abstract Emergency service systems such as community fire departments respond to and resolve unplanned events within a given service area. A review of the literature addressing such systems indicates that existing research is almost exclusively focused on higher level planning issues such as facility location and resource allocation. In contrast, this study addresses the operational level of such a system, an existing fire department's response to residential structure fire. Such a response exhibits many of the elements of traditional project management, such as distinctly defined tasks and significant predecessor relationships. However, the defining characteristic of these projects is not simply expediency, but the fact that the structure of the project can change if the preceding project structure does not complete some aspect of its task sequence within an interval of time dictated by some external pacing function. What emerges is a unique and intriguing class of project, dubbed the hyper‐project in this study. The concept of the hyper‐project is discussed both in its general form and with respect to the aforementioned case study example. Readily transferable to non‐emergency applications, the hyper‐project typifies and unites a heretofore unrecognized family of operations, highlighting the opportunities for future research.