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Do the busiest times hurt performance the most? Conventional wisdom suggests that performance suffers the most when the system is strained. As unit availability decreases, fractile response is justifiably lower:…

Call demand, road congestion, and urban sprawl are ever-growing features of the modern emergency service system. They put pressure on your response performance and drive demand for capital and operating…

Fire and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) chiefs are increasingly being asked to measure, report, and improve response performance and how they utilize their resources. They are being asked to justify…

In well-run services, fractile performance improvements do not come cheaply. A one per cent gain in an eight or nine minute response target may cost millions of dollars. Moreover, it…

The following articles comprise the published research that informs the Darkhorse approach. All of these were produced by Darkhorse research affiliate, the Centre for Excellence in Operations. Darkhorse co-founder, Daniel Haight,…