| Article ID: | iaor1994150 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 20 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 199 |
| End Page Number: | 213 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 1993 |
| Journal: | Computers and Operations Research |
| Authors: | Golden Bruce L., Fu Michael C., Michaels Jennifer D., Brennan John E. |
| Keywords: | scheduling, simulation: applications, queues: applications |
The authors use computer simulation to evaluate several strategies for scheduling the arrival of blood donors to a Red Cross blood drive. After building and validating a model of the current blood donation process, they tested various strategies using the actual arrival profiles of the donors. The mean transit times of the donors were compared for the different strategies to determine which was most effective.