Integrating expected coverage and local reliability for emergency medical services location problems

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 8-18

  Sorensen, Paul ^a   Church, Richard ^b  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Reliability; Ambulance; EMS; Local reliability; Location modeling; LR MEXCLP; MALP; MEXCLP; Optimization; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; MODELING; OPTIMIZATION; SIMULATION;

EID: 70350547966     PISSN: 00380121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2009.04.002     Document Type: Article

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