Optimal emergency ambulance locations in Gaza Strip

Other Title(s)

أفضل الأماكن لإنشاء محطات الإسعاف و الطوارئ في قطاع غزه

Dissertant

Abu Nusayr, Imad Harb Awad

Thesis advisor

Ashur, Yusuf Husayn Mahmud

Comitee Members

Abu Nasir, Sami Salim
Abu Muammar, Faris Mahmud

University

Islamic University

Faculty

Faculty of Commerce

Department

Department of Business Administration

University Country

Palestine (Gaza Strip)

Degree

Master

Degree Date

2015

English Abstract

-When an incident occurs and acute health care is needed, the emergency number 101 should be called.

After such a call, an ambulance should be within 10 minutes in the place. There are ambulance stations in all Gaza Strip region, from where ambulance can depart to the scene of an incident.

The study goal is to identify the optimal locations of these stations and the maximum response time (or maximum service distance) to reach the accident.

The Location Set Covering Model (LSCM) is applied to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), which is the responsible of the Emergency Medical Service (EMS) stations.

The optimal locations are firstly achieved by locating these stations so the maximum expected demand may be reached within a specified target time. The LSCM determines the minimal number of location sites needed to cover all demand points using three different maximal response time of 7 , 10 and 12 minutes, As a result when Gaza Strip considered as one region the optimal output of the model is 5 , 3 and 3 location sites respectively.

If each governorate considered as a separate region then 6 location sites needed with a maximal response time of 7 minutes. The study proposes an approach to find out a location problem solution based on the model formulation as an integer linear program problem and solved using LINDOlanguage program. The optimal solution of the study model makes reduction of the number of location sites by a percentage 25%, decreasing the maximal response time by 30% , reducing the average traveling distance by 38% and finally, increasing the maximum expected coverage by 12%.

Main Subjects

Civil Engineering

No. of Pages

88

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Language

English

Data Type

Arab Theses

Record ID

BIM-687051