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Changwha Oh, Yongwan Chun and Hyun Kim
This research employs a spatial optimization approach customized for addressing equitable emergency medical facility location problems through the p-dispersed-median problem (p-DIME). The p-DIME integrates two conflicting classes of spatial optimization ...
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Chung-Hsien Liu, Ming-Jen Tsai, Chi-Feng Hsu, Cheng-Han Tsai, Yao-Sing Su and Deng-Chuan Cai
The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) system faced overwhelming challenges during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. However, further information is required to determine how the pandemic affected the EMS response and the clinical outcomes ...
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Dionicio Neira-Rodado, John Wilmer Escobar-Velasquez and Sally McClean
In this paper, an analytic review of the recent methodologies tackling the problem of dynamic allocation of ambulances was carried out. Considering that state-of-the-art is moving to deal with more extensive and dynamic problems to address in a better wa...
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Thomas James Tiam-Lee, Rui Henriques and Vasco Manquinho
Emergency medical services (EMS) around the world face the challenging task of allocating resources to efficiently respond to medical emergencies within a geographical area. While several studies have been done to improve various aspects of EMS, such as ...
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Kiatirat Sreemongkol, Manoj Lohatepanont, Pannee Cheewinsiriwat, Tanyaluk O. Bunlikitkul and Jirapong Supasaovapak
Stroke is a major cause of death in Thailand. It requires a specific time period of 4.5 h from onset to treatment to increase recovery rates, and therefore, it can be categorized as a time-sensitive disease. The objective of this research is to identify ...
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Chih-Hong Sun, Chen-Yang Cheng, Cheng-Hui Wang and Po-Huan Hsiao
To equally distribute the workload and minimize the travel distance for fire departments, we developed a new dynamic floating stations model (DFSM) to target traffic-related emergency medical services (EMS) during peak hours. This study revealed that tra...
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Lorenzo Gianquintieri, Maria Antonia Brovelli, Andrea Pagliosa, Gabriele Dassi, Piero Maria Brambilla, Rodolfo Bonora, Giuseppe Maria Sechi and Enrico Gianluca Caiani
The epidemic of coronavirus-disease-2019 (COVID-19) started in Italy with the first official diagnosis on 21 February 2020; However, it is not known how many cases were already present in earlier days and weeks, thus limiting the possibilities of conduct...
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Jeongbae Jeon, Solhee Kim, Gu Hyun Kang and Kyo Suh
Providing rapid access to emergency medical services (EMS) within the ?golden time? for survival is important to improve the survival rate of emergency patients. This study analyzes the accessibility of EMS based on driving speed changes following real-t...
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Liang Zhou, Shaohua Wang and Zhibang Xu
The outcomes for emergency medical services (EMS) are highly dependent on space-time accessibility. Prior research describes the location of EMS needs with low accuracy and has not integrated a temporal analysis of the road network, which accounts for va...
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