| Article ID: | iaor19901002 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 41 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 299 |
| End Page Number: | 310 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1990 |
| Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
| Authors: | Ceric Vlatko |
| Keywords: | medicine, facilities, developing countries |
A simulation study of an automated guided-vehicle system connected with an automated vertical transportation system in a large hospital is described. The aim of the study was to determine the allocation and size of storage space for vehicles, the minimum number of vehicles required, the accomplishment of a transportation-network timetable and the queueing situation in the system. This study is part of a simulation study of internal transportation in the new, 1100-bed University Hospital in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, which is under construction.