Prioritizing Mobility of Ambulances Based on a Bi-criterion and Multistage Approach in Overload Situations
Authors: Spyridakos, Athanasios 
Vasalakis, Stamatios 
Issue Date: 5-Apr-2023
Conference: 14th Balkan Conference on Operational Research (Virtual BALCOR 2020) "Operational Research in the Era of Digital Transformation and Business Analytics", 30 September - 3 October 2020, Thessaloniki, Greece 
Book: Operational Research in the Era of Digital Transformation and Business Analytics: BALCOR 2020 
Series: Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics
Keywords: Australasian triage scale, Dynamical programming, Emergency treatment, Linear programming, Risk management, Transportation
Abstract: 
This research work aims to develop a deterministic methodological approach for transportation problems of ambulances in natural disasters, where there are strong needs for immediate response and the number of cases is high. The proposed methodological approach is based on the principles of Dynamical Programming (DP), which discretizes the optimization problems in stages and the techniques of Linear Programming (LP) to identify the optimal transportation plan at every stage. In addition, the dynamic of the problem is enhanced by the usage of live data from Google. This kind of problem is considered multiplicative because there are two principal objectives (a) the emergency to transport the injured according to their triage scale and (b) the immediate movement of the patients to the hospitals. Also, the problem can be characterized as multiplicative because of (a) the existence of many start points and destination points of the ambulances with different distances and availabilities, (b) the destination points of one stage become the start points of the next stage, increasing the multiplicity of the problem and (c) the need to achieve global optimization of the time response in relation to the emergency and priorities of the patients’ condition. The above proposed methodological approach is illustrated through a case study involving the timely transfer of injured people as a result of a natural disaster to the nearest hospitals at a local level.
ISBN: 978-3-031-24294-6
978-3-031-24293-9
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-24294-6_5
URI: https://uniwacris.uniwa.gr/handle/3000/1740
Type: Conference Paper
Department: Department of Business Administration 
School: School of Administrative, Economics and Social Sciences 
Affiliation: University of West Attica (UNIWA) 
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