Efficient/Effective Deployment
Levrum’s Code3 Strategist is a comprehensive environment for strategic planning.
It enables you to “drill” deeply into your data, not just to observe important features such as service gaps, but to understand the reasons behind them by asking and answering increasingly detailed questions. This powerful capability combines with industry-leading simulation and modeling capabilities that enable you to assess options for any aspect of operations – station locations, apparatus placement, staff assignments, any aspect of scheduling including peak/dynamic units, cross-staffing, street network changes, auto- and mutual-aid agreements, district boundaries, running orders or AVL, any aspect of dispatch policy and a number of other policy considerations. It integrates historical data as well as future demand scenarios generated by Code3 Visionary.
A major Southwestern metro is using Code3 Strategist to balance workload among numerous fulltime and peak activity units while improving patient metrics and complying with rigid budget constraints. A progressive Bay Area department recently used the tool to cut workload on an over committed engine company by 25% with a zero-cost change in dispatch policy. Another Bay Area city is using Code3 Strategist to mitigate the effects of COVID-related budget cuts, while a large Northwestern city is using it to build contingency plans for handling significant surges in EMS demand. A Florida city used its modeling capabilities to develop alternate training plans in order to increase reliability of key companies. A small Eastern city is evaluating innovative deployment solutions with scarce resources and city real estate assets. These are just a few examples of work done by the more than 40 agencies that have come to rely on Code3 Strategist for three things: rapid and complete data exploration, comprehensive modeling and forecasting, and compelling data visualizations for stakeholder communication.