Emergency medical services and beyond: Addressing new challenges through a wide literature review

R Aringhieri, ME Bruni, S Khodaparasti… - Computers & Operations …, 2017 - Elsevier
One of the most important health care services is emergency medical service as it plays a
vital role in saving people's lives and reducing the rate of mortality and morbidity. Over the …

Recent optimization models and trends in location, relocation, and dispatching of emergency medical vehicles

V Bélanger, A Ruiz, P Soriano - European Journal of Operational Research, 2019 - Elsevier
Over the past 10 years, a considerable amount of research has been devoted to the
development of models to support decision making in the particular yet important context of …

Logistics for emergency medical service systems

M Reuter-Oppermann, PL van den Berg, JL Vile - Health Systems, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Emergency Medical Service (EMS) systems worldwide are complex systems,
characterized by significant variation in service providers, care pathways, patient case-mix …

Real-time ambulance dispatching and relocation

AA Nasrollahzadeh, A Khademi… - … & Service Operations …, 2018 - pubsonline.informs.org
In this study, we develop a flexible optimization framework for real-time ambulance
dispatching and relocation. In addition to ambulance redeployment, we consider a general …

A recursive simulation-optimization framework for the ambulance location and dispatching problem

V Bélanger, E Lanzarone, V Nicoletta, A Ruiz… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study addresses the Ambulance Location and Dispatching Problem (ALDP), which
jointly determines the location of available ambulances and their dispatching policy. The …

Emerging research fields in vehicle routing problem: a short review

M Salehi Sarbijan, J Behnamian - Archives of Computational Methods in …, 2023 - Springer
Vehicle routing problems (VRPs) have been the subject of intense and fast-growing
research for the last six decades. These problems have received much attention in …

Analysing the police patrol routing problem: A review

M Dewinter, C Vandeviver, T Vander Beken… - … International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Police patrol is a complex process. While on patrol, police officers must balance many
intersecting responsibilities. Most notably, police must proactively patrol and prevent …

Real-time ambulance redeployment approach to improve service coverage with fair and restricted workload for EMS providers

S Enayati, ME Mayorga, HK Rajagopalan, C Saydam - Omega, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Emergency Medical Services (EMS) managers are concerned with providing
maximum possible coverage in their service area. As emergency calls arrive into the EMS …

Lagrangian dual decomposition for the ambulance relocation and routing considering stochastic demand with the truncated Poisson

YC Lee, YS Chen, AY Chen - Transportation research part B …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The pre-hospital Emergency Medical Service (EMS) provides the critical care to the
ill or injured patients, and evaluates and manages those patients at scene before their …

Heuristic algorithms based on the isochron analysis for dynamic relocation of medical emergency vehicles

Y Karpova, F Villa, E Vallada, MÁ Vecina - Expert Systems with Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
Among the wide range of medical services, prehospital health care is one of the most
relevant, as it usually involves an emergency situation. The qualified medical team is …