EMERGENCY AMBULANCE SERVICE DEMONSTRATION PROJECT

THE PURPOSES OF THIS PROJECT WERE TO DEVELOP AND DEMONSTRATE THE APPLICATION OF SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT TOOLS FOR PLANNING AND CONTROL OF EMERGENCY AMBULANCE SERVICE IN NEW YORK, INCLUDING A MATHEMATICAL MODEL AND A GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM USING COMPUTERS; AND TO MAKE THIS SYSTEM READILY AVAILABLE FOR USE BY OTHER URBAN AREAS. THE PROJECT WAS DIVIDED INTO THREE AREAS: THE SIMULATION MODEL, FIELD EXPERIMENTATION, AND THE GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF AMBULANCE SERVICES, BASED ON THE STUDIES, ARE DISCUSSED. /HSL/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • 137 Pp, 6 REF
• Corporate Authors:

  New York, New York

  /Office of The Mayor
  ,   United States 
• Authors:
  • Burkholz, L
• Publication Date: 1970-4

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Administration; Communications; Control; Dispatching; Emergency vehicles; Geography; Information processing; Logistics; Management; Mathematical models; Simulation
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Freight Transportation; Geotechnology; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00221194
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Highway Safety Literature
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 10 1971 12:00AM