A maximum expected covering location model with two types of servers

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 730-741

  McLay, Laura A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency medical services; Facility location; Hypercube queuing model; Integer programming

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE SYSTEMS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FACILITY LOCATIONS; HYPERCUBE; HYPERCUBE MODEL; INPUT PARAMETER; INTEGER PROGRAMMING MODELS; LOCATION MODELS; LOCATION PROBLEMS; MEDICAL UNITS; QUEUING MODELS; REAL WORLD DATA; TRANSPORT VEHICLES; VIRGINIA;

AMBULANCES; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; FACILITIES; GEOMETRY; QUEUEING NETWORKS; QUEUEING THEORY;

INTEGER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 70749139960     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: 15458830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408170802702138     Document Type: Article

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