A review and classification of ambulance deployment and redeployment models in emergencies

Youness Frichi and Fouad Jawab

International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, 2024, vol. 49, issue 1, 1-35

Abstract: This paper is a literature review of ambulance deployment and redeployment modelling approaches in emergency medical services (EMS): mathematical programming, queuing theory, and simulation. The three approaches are presented and compared, highlighting their applications, advantages, and limitations. Mathematical programming has undergone considerable evolution over the years in a continuous effort to propose models considering stochastic aspects of the environment. Therefore, this paper pays special attention to mathematical models and their solution methods. Queueing and simulation models are descriptive and allow the evaluation of the system performance. Recent trends in modelling tend to combine several approaches, sequentially or iteratively, to take advantage of the benefits of each approach.

Keywords: emergency medical service; ambulances; deployment; redeployment; modelling; location models; mathematical programming; queuing theory; simulation. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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