Abstract Crashes on highways tend to be more serious on account of the high-speed driving of the vehicles involved. Therefore, a delay in handling a crash or transporting a patient may mean additional personal injury. To prevent such injury, quick emergency response is required. The purpose of this study is to analyze the optimal locations of regional emergency trauma centers, which allow for the effective handling of emergency trauma patients, and to determine the priority of each candidate hospital in terms of establishing trauma centers. Under such purpose, this study geocoded highway crash records to create a basis for spatial analysis and determined the priority of each candidate hospital by calculating the number of crashes handled based on the traffic volume and the severity of crashes using the maximum covering location problem model. The significance of this study is that it provides a basis for prioritizing the government’s financial supports for the candidate hospitals.
Optimal Location of Regional Emergency Trauma Centers Using Geocoded Crash Data
2016-01-01
7 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Maximum covering location problem , Geocoding , Regional emergency trauma center , Equivalent property damage only , Spatial analysis Computer Science , Multimedia Information Systems , User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction , Management of Computing and Information Systems , Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing
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