An Optimization Model for Real-Time Emergency Vehicle Dispatching and Routing
An Optimization Model for Real-Time Emergency Vehicle Dispatching and Routing
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实时应急车辆调度和路线优化模型
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2003
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Qiang Tian
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作者:
A. Haghani;Huijun Hu;Qiang Tian
When real-time traffic and travel time data are available to Emergency medical services (EMS) dispatch centers, a realtime and flexible dispatching strategy could be used to save crucial response time for EMS. This research concentrates on developing an optimization model for developing flexible dispatching strategies that take advantage of available real-time travel time information. The problem is formulated as an integer programming model in which a dynamic shortest path algorithm is used. Emergency vehicles and incidents are divided into categories so that different constraints could be incorporated. A simulation experiment demonstrates how this formulation works under real-time traffic conditions. The major modules of this simulation model include travel time prediction, dynamic shortest path incident/vehicles tracking, and dispatch optimization. This simulation model is a conceptual design of a real-time EMS system