GIS and health care

SL McLafferty - Annual review of public health, 2003 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract GIS and related spatial analysis methods provide a set of tools for describing and
understanding the changing spatial organization of health care, for examining its …

A systematic review of route optimisation and pre-emption methods for emergency vehicles

S Humagain, R Sinha, E Lai, P Ranjitkar - Transport reviews, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Reducing the travel time of emergency vehicles (EVs) is an effective way to improve critical
services such as ambulance, fire, and police. Route optimisation and pre-emption are …

Wireless health care service system for elderly with dementia

CC Lin, MJ Chiu, CC Hsiao, RG Lee… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The purpose of this paper is to integrate the technologies of radio frequency identification,
global positioning system, global system for mobile communications, and geographic …

Vehicle detection and traffic estimation with sensors technologies for intelligent transportation systems

PP Tasgaonkar, RD Garg, PK Garg - Sensing and Imaging, 2020 - Springer
The paper reviews the vehicle detection methods using the intrusive and non-intrusive
sensors. The objective of literature review is to summarize the sensors and technologies …

Integrated mobile GIS and wireless internet map servers for environmental monitoring and management

MH Tsou - Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
With the progress of mobile GIS technology there is a great potential for adopting wireless
communications and Internet mapping services for regional environmental management …

The application of geometric network models and building information models in geospatial environments for fire-fighting simulations

LC Chen, CH Wu, TS Shen, CC Chou - Computers, Environment and …, 2014 - Elsevier
This study was motivated by the need to develop a micro-geographic information system
(GIS) to represent and analyze 3D spatial data for fire-fighting simulations. The proposed …

Assessing the certainty of locations produced by an address geocoding system

CA Davis, FT Fonseca - Geoinformatica, 2007 - Springer
Addresses are the most common georeferencing resource people use to communicate to
others a location within a city. Urban GIS applications that receive data directly from citizens …

Sensor acquisition and allocation for real-time monitoring of articulated construction equipment in digital twins

SA Talmaki, VR Kamat - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
The visibility available to an equipment operator on a dynamic construction site can often be
blocked by various obstacles such as materials, temporary or permanent facilities, other …

Integration of GIS, GPS, and optimization technologies for the effective control of parcel delivery service

H Jung, K Lee, W Chun - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2006 - Elsevier
An intelligent monitoring and control system for parcel delivery service is described in this
paper. To manage pick-up and delivery operations more effectively, geographical …

Contextualizing research on transportation and health: a systems perspective

MJ Widener, M Hatzopoulou - Journal of transport & health, 2016 - Elsevier
During the past few decades, there has been a surge of interest in research seeking to
understand how personal and public health are affected by transportation systems. A large …