Healthcare facility (HCF) location has attracted considerable attention from the operations
research community over nearly four decades as one of the most important strategic issues …

One of the most important health care services is emergency medical service as it plays a
vital role in saving people's lives and reducing the rate of mortality and morbidity. Over the …

Over the past 10 years, a considerable amount of research has been devoted to the
development of models to support decision making in the particular yet important context of …

We provide a comprehensive overview of the typical decisions to be made in resource
capacity planning and control in health care, and a structured review of relevant articles from …

Emergencies that pose potential threats to our health, life, and properties can happen
anywhere and anytime and may result in huge losses if they are not handled timely and …

With emergencies being, unfortunately, part of our lives, it is crucial to efficiently plan and
allocate emergency response facilities that deliver effective and timely relief to people most …

Facility location models are well established in various application areas with more than a
century of history in academia. Since the 1970s the trend has been shifting from …

Background: Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OOHCA) is prevalent in the United States. Each
year between 180,000 and 400,000 people die due to cardiac arrest. The automated …

Estimates of road speeds have become commonplace and central to route planning, but few
systems in production provide information about the reliability of the prediction. Probabilistic …

Abstract Emergency Medical Service (EMS) systems worldwide are complex systems,
characterized by significant variation in service providers, care pathways, patient case-mix …