| Article ID: | iaor20042986 |
| Country: | China |
| Volume: | 18 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 49 |
| End Page Number: | 54 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2003 |
| Journal: | Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics |
| Authors: | He Jianmin, Fang Lei |
| Keywords: | emergency services |
The location problem for emergency systems often treats the shortest travel time as the objective. This may result in significantly raising the cost of the system. The paper gives a minimal cost solution, which treats satisfying the emergency system's service level as a constraint. An appropriate algorithm is given and the correctness of the approach is proved theoretically.