APPLICATION OF AN EXPECTED COVERING MODEL TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE SYSTEM DESIGN*

Decision Sciences - Tập 13 Số 3 - Trang 416-439 - 1982
Mark S. Daskin1,2
1Mark S. Daskin is an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University where he has a joint appointment with the Civil Engineering Department and the Transportation Center. His primary research interests are in transportation network analysis, location modeling for urban service systems, and analytic modeling of port operations. Before joining the Northwestern faculty, he taught at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and also did graduate work at Cambridge University.
2Northwestern University

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ABSTRACTThe Emergency Medical Service (EMS) Act specifies the fraction of all demands for service that must be reached in a given amount of time for urban and rural areas. The conditions have traditionally been interpreted to apply to the case in which all EMS vehicles are available to respond to demands. A model that considers the probability of a vehicle being busy is formulated and model properties are briefly discussed. The model is then applied to two problems: a 55‐node test case and a 33‐node census tract representation of Austin, Texas. The implications of the new model for EMS system design are discussed as are the limitations of the modeling approach.

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Decision Sciences

Tập 13 Số 3

416-439

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