Scheduling ambulance crews for maximum coverage

G Erdoğan, E Erkut, A Ingolfsson and G Laporte ()
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G Erdoğan: Ozyegin University
E Erkut: Ozyegin University
A Ingolfsson: University of Alberta
G Laporte: HEC Montréal

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2010, vol. 61, issue 4, 543-550

Abstract: Abstract This paper addresses the problem of scheduling ambulance crews in order to maximize the coverage throughout a planning horizon. The problem includes the subproblem of locating ambulances to maximize expected coverage with probabilistic response times, for which a tabu search algorithm is developed. The proposed tabu search algorithm is empirically shown to outperform previous approaches for this subproblem. Two integer programming models that use the output of the tabu search algorithm are constructed for the main problem. Computational experiments with real data are conducted. A comparison of the results of the models is presented.

Keywords: ambulance location; shift scheduling; tabu search; integer programming (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/jors.2008.163

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