Emergency Response Times and Area Coverage Statistics

Emergency Response Figures for Westfield, MA

            Shown below are two sets of data, one showing the area serviced by the current 3 fire station layout compared to the new proposed 2 fire station layout.  These figure are in the time brackets of 0 to 4 minutes, 4 to 6 minutes, and 6 to 8 minutes.  Overall with only a small amount of change it does not look like changing to a 2 fire house layout would have a significant effect.

Comments:

            This analysis does only account for a little over 95% of the town of Westfield which likely means this small percentage is closer to other surrounding fire stations and is serviced by these stations.  This analysis also does not take into account traffic data or changing conditions so these service areas are not fixed and could change with the change in conditions.  The difference between the 2 and 3 fire station layouts is minimal and I do not believe that there would be a significant change in response times in Westfield if this station is closed.

This link shows you the full report.

WSU Commuter Statistics

Statistics Regarding Westfield State University Commuters

There are currently 2926 commuters at Westfield State University.  This breaks down to 1755 undergraduate students,  who make up the majority of this group.  There are 714 students attending graduate programs.  Lastly there are 466 students  that attend the university for continuing education purposes.

TYPE	Miles	Minutes
Continuing Education	19	30
Graduate Students	21	32
Undergraduate Students	39	50

Comments:

This analysis was done using the data for commuters in the New England New York area, some of the addresses were not used due to the position of the point being in California or North Carolina so these individuals are obviously not commuting to school.  Other addresses that could not be used in this analysis were P.O. box addresses as the address locator could not geocode them.  Other faults in this analysis include that it was only run taking one day into consideration and no traffic data was taken into consideration.               
 This link   shows the complete report.