Assessing an ambulance service with queuing theory

DOI10.1016/J.COR.2006.12.005MaRDI QIDQ2471228zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marcos Singer, Patricio Donoso

Publication date 22 February 2008

Published in Computers \& Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://hdl.handle.net/10533/139173

zbMATH Keywords

ambulancesperformancequeuing theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Queues and service in operations research (90B22)

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