Emergencies that pose potential threats to our health, life, and properties can happen
anywhere and anytime and may result in huge losses if they are not handled timely and …

In this paper, an analytic review of the recent methodologies tackling the problem of dynamic
allocation of ambulances was carried out. Considering that state-of-the-art is moving to deal …

This paper is concerned with the optimal influenza vaccine distribution in a heterogeneous
population consisting of multiple subgroups. We employ a compartmental model for …

This study addresses the Ambulance Location and Dispatching Problem (ALDP), which
jointly determines the location of available ambulances and their dispatching policy. The …

Abstract Emergency Medical Service (EMS) systems provide fundamental services in
relation to public health and safety. The spatial configuration of EMS stations is crucial to the …

Location-allocation of ambulances is a critical planning problem in the efficient operation of
an emergency medical services system. This work considers a joint ambulance location and …

Every patient should have equal access to fast and qualified assistance by emergency
medical services (EMS). Most location planning models for EMS only consider efficiency …

Food banks operate with an objective to serve as many of food-insecure people as possible
with the limited supply available to them. This paper presents a mixed-integer programming …

Most literature on the ambulance location problem aims to maximize coverage, ie, the
fraction of people that can be reached within a certain response time threshold. Such a …

A patient fall is one of the adverse events in an inpatient unit of a hospital that can lead to
disability and/or mortality. The medical literature suggests that increased visibility of patients …