Analysing emergency medical service ambulance deployment on a brazilian highway using thehypercube model

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 261-270

  Mendonça, Fc ^a   Morabito, R ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ambulance deployment; Emergency medical system; Highways; Hypercube model; Queuing theory

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCES; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUEUEING THEORY; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

AMBULANCE DEPLOYMENT; BRAZILIAN HIGHWAYS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SYSTEMS; HYPERCUBE MODEL;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035281134     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601097     Document Type: Article

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