OPTIMUM AMBULANCE LOCATION IN SEMI-RURAL AREAS

THIS PAPER PRESENTS A METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE OPTIMUM LOCATION OF AMBULANCE STATIONS TO MINIMIZE THE AVERAGE RESPONSE TIME TO EMERGENCY CALLS. A NEW POINT-TO-POINT DRIVING TIME MODEL IS INTRODUCED, AND A COMPUTER OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM USED TO DETERMINE THE OPTIMUM LOCATIONS. A CONSTRAINT THAT THE AVERAGE RESPONSE TIME TO ANY POINT IN THE SERVICE AREA BE LESS THAN SOME SPECIFIED MINIMUM IS ALSO CONSIDERED. THE METHOD IS APPLIED TO WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN. /AUTHOR/

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  Operations Research Society of America

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• Authors:
  • Volz, R A
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Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 193-203
• Serial:
  • Transportation Science
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
  • ISSN: 0041-1655
  • Serial URL: http://transci.journal.informs.org/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Computers; Disasters and emergency operations; Emergency response time; Emergency vehicles; Hazards and emergency operations; Location; Railroad stations; Reaction time
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00226349
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 9 1977 12:00AM