Stepped wedge randomised trials are increasingly popular. Here we derive the optimal design for a fixed number of periods; this does not allocate an equal number of cluster units to each treatment sequence as might otherwise have been expected.

This paper addresses the highly critical task of planning asset protection activities during uncontrollable wildfires known in the literature as the Asset Protection Problem (APP). In the APP each asset requires a protective service to be performed by a set of emergency response vehicles within...