A survey of healthcare facility location

A Ahmadi-Javid, P Seyedi, SS Syam - Computers & Operations Research, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …

Emergency medical services and beyond: Addressing new challenges through a wide literature review

R Aringhieri, ME Bruni, S Khodaparasti… - Computers & Operations …, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …

Resolving a location selection problem by means of an integrated AHP-RAFSI approach

A Alosta, O Elmansuri, I Badi - Reports in Mechanical Engineering, 2021 - rme-journal.org
The development of emergency medical service (EMS) system has been a growing focus for
most health authorities across the world. It is generally thought that patient survival is the …

Multi-objective scheduling of priority-based rescue vehicles to extinguish forest fires using a multi-objective discrete gravitational search algorithm

G Tian, AM Fathollahi-Fard, Y Ren, Z Li, X Jiang - Information Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
The implementation of emergency scheduling of priority-based rescue vehicles for
extinguishing forest fires is a complex optimization problem facing with many challenges …

Recent optimization models and trends in location, relocation, and dispatching of emergency medical vehicles

V Bélanger, A Ruiz, P Soriano - European Journal of Operational Research, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

Emergency facility location problems in logistics: Status and perspectives

W Wang, S Wu, S Wang, L Zhen, X Qu - Transportation research part E …, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Solving the dynamic ambulance relocation and dispatching problem using approximate dynamic programming

V Schmid - European journal of operational research, 2012 - Elsevier
Emergency service providers are supposed to locate ambulances such that in case of
emergency patients can be reached in a time-efficient manner. Two fundamental decisions …

A review on simulation models applied to emergency medical service operations

L Aboueljinane, E Sahin, Z Jemai - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2013 - Elsevier
Emergency medical services (EMS) are public safety systems responsible for the pre-
hospital stabilization and transport of seriously injured patients. The goal of such systems is …

[HTML][HTML] Emergency response facility location in transportation networks: A literature review

Y Liu, Y Yuan, J Shen, W Gao - Journal of traffic and transportation …, 2021 - Elsevier
Emergency response activity relies on transportation networks. Emergency facility location
interacts with transportation networks clearly. This review is aimed to provide a combined …

Simulation-based multi-objective optimization for enhanced safety of fire emergency response in metro stations

Q Liu, R He, L Zhang - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2022 - Elsevier
This study establishes a multi-objective optimization (MOO) model for fire emergency
response in the metro station using a simulation-based analysis, in which the emergency …