Joint ground and air emergency medical services coverage models: a greedy heuristic solution approach

DOI10.1016/j.ejor.2010.05.047zbMath1205.90175OpenAlexW1999182072MaRDI QIDQ992673

Elif Tokar Erdemir, Marie Flanigan, Peter A. Rogerson, Rajan Batta, Alan Blatt

Publication date: 9 September 2010

Published in: European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2010.05.047

zbMATH Keywords

emergency servicesaeromedicalbackup coveragelocation-coverage modelstrauma crashes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximation methods and heuristics in mathematical programming (90C59) Discrete location and assignment (90B80)

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