A stochastic programming model for ambulance location allocation problem in the Tunisian context

Author

Boujemaa, Rania ; Hammami, Sonia ; Jebali, Ali

Author_Institution

Nat. Eng. Sch. of Tunis Ind. Eng., Univ. of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia

fYear

2013

fDate

28-30 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Our study is concerned with the development of an Emergency Medical Services ambulance location allocation model taking into account the randomness of the system related to service requests. Our objective is to satisfy rapidly all emergency calls while minimizing the overall costs. The model obtained, a discrete stochastic program, is approximated by the sample average function. The performance of the obtained sample average optimization problem is compared to a deterministic model.

Keywords

emergency services; health care; patient care; stochastic programming; deterministic model; discrete stochastic program; emergency calls; emergency medical services ambulance location allocation model; sample average optimization problem; service requests; Medical services; Probabilistic logic; Programming; Resource management; Stochastic processes; Time factors; Vehicles; Sample Average Ap-proximation; ambulance location allocation problem; emergency service demand; stochastic programming; uncertainty modeling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Engineering and Systems Management (IESM), Proceedings of 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rabat

Type

conf

Filename

6761400