A Systematic Review of Route Optimization for Ambulance Routing Problem
- DOI
- 10.2991/978-94-6463-164-7_20How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Ambulance Routing Problem; Emergency Medical Services; Routing; Response Time; Safe Ambulance Routing; Route Optimization
- Abstract
Ambulance Routing Problem (ARP) is the part of Emergency Medical Services (EMS), which provide timely medical help for those who are in need. In Medical emergency situation, the key concern is, to provide early treatment. Relocating patients quickly to neighboring medical facilities is extremely difficult given the existing traffic situation and has to be rectified. A lack of EMS owing to urbanization and several routing considerations such as the precise location of the request, traffic problems, road width, and ambulance locations are few of the difficulties. This paper summarizes a number of recent studies on ARP in routing and the issues they raised. In this survey, Routing for Ambulance vehicles is categorized as initiating ambulance from depot to injured location (response Time) and routing from injured location to nearby medical Centre (Travel Time). And, we highlighted challenging issues and constraints related to route optimization in both above mentioned category. Also emphasized the less explored research area like Interfacility hospital transfer and importance of incorporating safety metrics during Ambulance Routing.
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TY - CONF AU - A. Vijaya Lakshmi AU - Perike Chandra Sekhar AU - K. Suresh Joseph AU - A. Sai Priya PY - 2023 DA - 2023/06/05 TI - A Systematic Review of Route Optimization for Ambulance Routing Problem BT - Proceedings of the Joint 3rd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Data Science (ICBDS 2022) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 294 EP - 304 SN - 2468-5739 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-164-7_20 DO - 10.2991/978-94-6463-164-7_20 ID - Lakshmi2023 ER -