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) |
Appears in Collections: | Book Chapter / Κεφάλαιο Βιβλίου |
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