Expert oriented approach for analyzing the blockchain adoption barriers in humanitarian supply chain

IG Sahebi, B Masoomi, S Ghorbani - Technology in Society, 2020 - Elsevier
In digital era, blockchain technology has been known as the operational innovation that is
rapidly joining the context of humanitarian supply chain and relief logistic. Hence, it has the …

Response time in the emergency services. Systematic review

ELS Cabral, WRS Castro, DRM Florentino… - Acta cirurgica …, 2018 - SciELO Brasil
The growth of the urban population raises concern about municipal public managers in the
sense of providing emergency medical services (EMS) that are aligned with the needs of …

[HTML][HTML] Using optimization to provide decision support for strategic emergency medical service planning–Three case studies

H Andersson, TA Granberg, M Christiansen… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
To achieve high performing emergency medical services (EMS), planning is of vital
importance. EMS planners face several challenges when managing ambulance stations and …

[HTML][HTML] A mathematical optimization model for location Emergency Medical Service (EMS) centers using contour lines

SE Hashemi, M Jabbari, P Yaghoubi - Healthcare Analytics, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite extensive research and efforts to optimize Emergency Medical Service (EMS) during
the last four decades, there are still critical and fundamental challenges to study. Operational …

Statistical modeling of emergency medical services' response and rescue times to road traffic crashes in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

A Al-Zabidi, M Almannaa, M Elhenawy… - Case Studies on Transport …, 2022 - Elsevier
Emergency medical services (EMS) is a critical component high-quality health-care. Road
traffic crashes are one of the major causes of death and injury around the world. In the …

An integrated approach for strategic and tactical decisions for the emergency medical service: Exploring optimization and metamodel-based simulation for vehicle …

M Amorim, F Antunes, S Ferreira, A Couto - Computers & Industrial …, 2019 - Elsevier
Choosing locations for emergency medical service stations and vehicles has been
thoroughly investigated. However, the formulations presented to solve this question are not …

A multi-verse optimizer algorithm for ambulance repositioning in emergency medical service systems

H Golabian, J Arkat, R Tavakkoli-Moghaddam… - Journal of Ambient …, 2022 - Springer
In an emergency medical system, customer coverage is directly affected by how ambulances
are allocated to customers and how they should be returned to stations. The purpose of this …

Predicting fire brigades operational breakdowns: A real case study

S Cerna, C Guyeux, G Royer, C Chevallier, G Plumerel - Mathematics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Over the years, fire departments have been searching for methods to identify their
operational disruptions and establish strategies that allow them to efficiently organize their …

An operational planning for emergency medical services considering the application of IoT

J Valizadeh, A Zaki, M Movahed, S Mazaheri… - Operations Management …, 2024 - Springer
In the last two years, the worldwide outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting
heavy casualties have highlighted the importance of further research in healthcare. In …

Optimizing ambulance locations for coverage enhancement of accident sites in South Delhi

S Wajid, N Nezamuddin, A Unnikrishnan - Transportation research …, 2020 - Elsevier
The main focus of this paper is to analyze the level of service of existing emergency medical
services (EMS) operated by CATS in South Delhi. The fatal crash data for three years is …