Analysis of ambulance decentralization in an urban emergency medical service using the hypercube queueing model

This paper studies the application of the hypercube queueing model to SAMU-192, the urban Emergency Medical Service of Campinas in Brazil. The hypercube is a powerful descriptive model to represent server-to-customer systems, allowing the evaluation of a wide variety of performance measures for diff...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Computers & operations research 2007-03, Vol.34 (3), p.727-741
Hauptverfasser:	Takeda, Renata Algisi, Widmer, João A., Morabito, Reinaldo
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Ambulance deployment Ambulance services Analysis Case study Decentralization Emergency medical system Emergency services Hypercube model Queueing theory Queuing theory Urban areas
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