Dynamic Floating Stations Model for Emergency Medical Services with a Consideration of Traffic Data

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Po-Huan Hsiao¹  Chih-Hong Sun¹  Chen-Yang Cheng²  Cheng-Hui Wang³ 

[1] Department of Geography, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan;Department of Industrial Engineering &Management, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei 10608, Taiwan;Department of Laboratory Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei 11031, Taiwan;

关键词: Set covering;    ambulance location allocation;    EMS;    GIS;   

DOI  :  10.3390/ijgi9050336

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

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.

【 授权许可】

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