Emergency ambulance deployment in Barbados: a multi-objective approach

• Published in: The Journal of the Operational Research Society Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 185 - 192
• Main Author: Harewood, S I
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Taylor & Francis 01.02.2002; Palgrave Macmillan Press; Palgrave Macmillan UK; Palgrave; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Ambulance services; Ambulances; Applied sciences; Average speed; Business and Management; Case-oriented Paper; Case-Oriented Papers; developing countries; Exact sciences and technology; Flows in networks. Combinatorial problems; health service; Health services; location; Management; Mathematical models; Modeling; Objective functions; Operational research and scientific management; Operational research. Management science; Operations research; Operations Research/Decision Theory; Probabilistic modeling; Queuing; Roads; Simulations; Studies; Traffic volume; Travel time; health service; developing countries; location; Availability; Performance evaluation; Data analysis; Medical transport; Multiobjective programming; Unfolding; Developing countries; Location problem; Optimization; Ambulance; Relaxation method; Emergency; Reliability; Data gathering

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