Analysing emergency medical service ambulance deployment on a Brazilian highway using the hypercube model

Hypercube Queuing Models in Emergency Service Systems: A State-of-the-Art Review

“…Atkinson et al [61] proposed one exact and two heuristic methods to estimate loss probabilities and ambulance utilization rate for the EMS studied by Mendonca et al [62]. They also showed the accuracy of the proposed heuristic methods with numerical example.…”

“…Mendonca and Morabito [60] investigated ambulance deployment on a highway, which connects the cities of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. In this study, only a part of the highway is analyzed, which is covered by the Anjos do Asfalto's emergency system.…”

“…Iannoni et al [64] presented several greedy heuristic algorithms to optimize ambulance location and dispatch policies for the EMS presented in Mendonca et al [62]. They embedded in each optimization procedure the hypercube approximation algorithm proposed by Atkinson et al [62], to solve large-scale problems fast and with acceptable precision.…”

“…They embedded in each optimization procedure the hypercube approximation algorithm proposed by Atkinson et al [62], to solve large-scale problems fast and with acceptable precision.…”

A hybrid hypercube – Genetic algorithm approach for deploying many emergency response mobile units in an urban network

“…Later, Larson (1975) developed the A-hypercube, an approximation of the original model, which reduced computational difficulties encountered when implementing the original model. Extensions of hypercube have been proposed by some researchers (Halpern, 1977;Jarvis, 1985;Katehakis, 1985;Burwell et al, 1992;Swersey, 1994), while applications and extension of the model for planning emergency response services have been developed by Brandeau and Larson (1986), Burwell et al (1993), Chelst and Barlach (1981), Sacks and Grief (1994), Mendonça and Morabito (2001), Atkinson et al (2006Atkinson et al ( , 2008, Iannoni and Morabito (2007), Takeda et al (2007) and Galvão and Morabito (2008).…”