@article{ref1,
title="On the evaluation of the ambulance capacity of the Asian side of Istanbul in the case of a serious earthquake",
journal="Disaster medicine and public health preparedness",
year="2020",
author="Pınarbaşı, Aysun and Babaqi, Tareq and Vizvári, Béla",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study is to analyze a strategy for the assignment and transportation of injured patients to hospital to decrease the demand on transportation, in both predisaster and postdisaster periods, on the Anatolian side of Istanbul.   METHODS: Two approaches are used in this study: a Voronoi diagram, and a heuristic approach to the problem of scheduling. A Voronoi diagram is used to divide the city into 74 regions, where each hospital has a certain region of responsibility. The transportation strategy of 1 hospital is modeled by minimizing the makespan (ie, the maximal completion time) and the work-in-process, which are used as different objectives in scheduling theory.   RESULTS: The total waiting time of 100 injured people was minimized to 13,036 min when a total of 3 vehicles was used in the studied region, on the Asian side of Istanbul. The transportation capacity and total operating capacity of the hospitals should be approximately equal.   CONCLUSIONS: The people of Istanbul will be in a safer position if the suggested measures are implemented. This is an important consideration, as Istanbul is situated in a region where serious earthquakes are possible at any moment.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1935-7893",
doi="10.1017/dmp.2020.287",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2020.287"
}