A multiple dispatch and partial backup hypercube queuing model to analyze emergency medical systems on highways
Ana Paula Iannoni and
Reinaldo Morabito
Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2007, vol. 43, issue 6, 755-771
Abstract:
The hypercube is a spatially distributed queuing model based on Markovian analysis approximations, used to analyze the configuration and operation of server-to-customer emergency systems. In the present study we adapted the model to analyze emergency medical systems (EMS) on highways, which operate within particular dispatching policies. The study takes into consideration that: the emergency calls are of different types; the servers are distinct (e.g., rescue ambulances, medical vehicles); only certain servers in the system can service calls in a given region (partial backup); and, depending on the type of call, one or more identical or distinct servers are immediately dispatched to service such calls (multiple dispatch). We also consider that the arriving calls take place either along the highway or at the home location of a server - in which case the server does not need to travel to the call location. Finally, we analyzed the computational results of applying such an approach to the case study of an EMS operating on Brazilian highways.
Keywords: Emergency; medical; systems; Hypercube; queuing; model; Ambulance; location; Highways (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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