Locating emergency vehicles: Modelling the substitutability of resources and the impact of delays in the arrival of assistance

The quality and promptness of emergency assistance is highly dependent on the location of existing emergency vehicles. In this work, we propose a new model for optimizing emergency vehicles’ location that takes into account the existence of different types of emergency vehicles and the level of care they can provide, the possibility of vehicles’ substitution considering the hierarchy of levels of care and the explicit consideration of the...