Emergency Medical Service Ambulance Allocation, on the Tehran-Qom Highway, using the Hypercube Queuing Model

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Professor, Allameh Tabatabaei University.

2 Assistant Professor, Allameh Tabatabaei University.

3 M.A, Allameh Tabatabaei University.

Abstract

Road relief stations Location and allocation problems are known to have a significant impact upon performance of road victims servicing. The main purpose of this kinds of problems, are road relief Stations locating and districting the areas to appropriate servers assignment. These problems are so important, because of improving the performance criteria, such as Customer waiting time that leads to increasing the probability of victim survival. In this research, road relief stations of Tehran-Qom highway are reallocated, using hypercube queening model (the most popular queening model for locating and allocating problems). For reaching this goal, the different state of the system and the equilibrium equations of each state were determined, using the rate diagrams. Then by using limit probabilities, the system performance criteria such as server’s workload and customer waiting time was calculated and by practical suggestions for resizing each server allocated areas, the performance of the system had improved.

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Journal of Industrial Management Perspective
Volume 2, Issue 3 - Serial Number 7
December 2012
Pages 45-70

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