The healthcare system is no stranger to resource challenges in the face of unlimited demand
to fulfill healthcare objectives of satisfying patients, maintaining service quality, and …

To achieve high performing emergency medical services (EMS), planning is of vital
importance. EMS planners face several challenges when managing ambulance stations and …

Purpose Rational location of emergency medical service (EMS) facilities could improve
access to EMS, and thus assist in saving patients' lives and improving their health outcomes …

2 School of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China 3 School of
Information Systems and Technology, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA …

Adequate spatial coverage by the emergency medical service and the ability to reach any
location in the area of interest in the shortest possible time are crucial for the survival of …

Health care accessibility studies are well established in the US but lacking in Austria, even
though both experience high costs and have hospital care as the largest contributor to …

To prevent the great dangers caused by emergency situations, providing rapid and high-
quality emergency aid highly depends on the location of emergency medical centers. The …

Purpose The location of emergency medical service (EMS) facilities is a basic facility
location problem. Many scholars have examined this kind of problem, but research on the …

Quantitative research on disaster medical rescue from the perspective of disaster
classification can provide a more accurate decision-making foundation for disaster medical …

The reorganization of an emergency medical system means that we look for new locations of
ambulance stations with the aim of improving the accessibility of the service. We applied two …