A multiple dispatch and partial backup hypercube queuing model to analyze emergency medical systems on highways

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 755-771

  Iannoni, Ana Paula ^a   Morabito, Reinaldo ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ambulance location; Emergency medical systems; Highways; Hypercube queuing model

Indexed keywords

MARKOV CHAIN; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; NUMERICAL METHOD; PLANNING METHOD; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TRAVEL TIME;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 34548492955     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2006.05.005     Document Type: Article

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