Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Engineering and Systems Management (IESM), Proceedings of 2013 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Rabat
