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Dynamic Floating Stations Model for Emergency Medical Services with a Consideration of Traffic Data
| Content Provider | MDPI |
|---|---|
| Author | Sun, Chih-Hong Cheng, Chen-Yang Wang, Cheng-Hui Hsiao, Po-Huan |
| Copyright Year | 2020 |
| Description | 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 traffic-related EMS incidents have different characteristics to other EMS incidents. The number of floating stations was determined by the number of available ambulances at a given time. The optimum floating station location was identified by using the given capacity to establish the smallest service radius. In DFSM simulations using floating stations with a capacity of 100 and 150 EMS incidents, the result shows significant improvements in comparison to the current situation. |
| Starting Page | 336 |
| e-ISSN | 22209964 |
| DOI | 10.3390/ijgi9050336 |
| Journal | ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information |
| Issue Number | 5 |
| Volume Number | 9 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Publisher Date | 2020-05-20 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information Isprs International Journal of Geo-information Transportation Science and Technology Set Covering Ambulance Location Allocation Ems Gis |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
