Modelling Rural Police Patrol
针对农村地区旅行时间长、服务呼叫特点特殊的问题，开发了一个包含旅行时间和优先呼叫的马尔可夫模型，并用美国密歇根州沃什特诺县的数据验证了其有效性。
Police patrol has been modelled extensively in the urban environment, but these urban models cannot usually be applied to rural settings. The length of travel times and the nature of calls for service in rural, wide-area, low-population regions demand special consideration. In this paper, we develop a Markov model that explicitly incorporates travel times and priority calls to analyse police patrol policies in rural areas. Results of the model using data from Washtenaw County, Michigan, USA, are given to show its utility.