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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Emergency service providers are facing the following problem: how and where to locate
vehicles in order to cover potential future demand effectively. Ambulances are supposed to …

In this study, we develop a flexible optimization framework for real-time ambulance
dispatching and relocation. In addition to ambulance redeployment, we consider a general …

This paper studies ambulance deployment and relocation problems, which are two of the
core decisions faced by emergency medical service control centers in metropolis. The …

The emergency service station (ESS) location problem has been widely studied in the
literature since 1970s. There has been a growing interest in the subject especially after …

In this work we report on modeling the demand for Emergency Medical Services (EMS) in
Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, followed by the optimization of the location of the …

In order to ensure an adequate service to the population, Emergency Medical Services
(EMS) rely on a given number of ambulances strategically located over the territory they …