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Designing modular capacitated emergency medical service using information on ambulance trip

  • Sondes HammamiEmail author
  • Aida Jebali
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Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the design of a two-tiered emergency medical service (EMS) system. The objective remains in determining the location and the capacity of modular ambulance stations that minimize the EMS system’s cost while respecting a pre-specified response time. A novel approach considering advanced information on ambulance trip and accounting for ambulance busy fractions is proposed. This approach is compared to its counterpart traditional approach that does not consider ambulance trip. Two mixed integer linear programs are developed. Experimentation of the two models was conducted on a real life case study. The obtained results pointed out the usefulness and superiority of the proposed approach. A cost saving of 3% is achieved in addition to the reduction in ambulance round-trip time.

Keywords

Two-tiered EMS Location allocation problem Ambulance trip information Modular capacity Busy fraction Mixed integer linear programming 

Mathematics Subject Classification

90C11 Mixed integer programming 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.LR-11-ES20 Laboratoire d’Analyse Conception et Commande des Systèmes, Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de TunisUniversité de Tunis El ManarTunisTunisia
  2. 2.Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Carthage ENICarthageUniversité de CarthageTunisTunisia
  3. 3.Département Ingénierie des SystèmesUniversité Paris-Est, ESIEE ParisNoisy le Grand CedexFrance

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