Extensions to emergency vehicle location models

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2725-2743

  Alsalloum, Othman Ibraheem ^a   Rand, Graham K ^b  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emergency medical services; Location

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; HEALTH CARE; LOCATION; PROBABILITY;

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY VEHICLE LOCATION MODELS; ERLANG'S LOSS FORMULA; LOCATION PROBLEM;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 30744465622     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2005.02.025     Document Type: Article

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