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On the Evaluation of the Ambulance Capacity of the Asian Side of Istanbul in the Case of a Serious Earthquake

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2020

Aysun Pınarbaşı ,
Tareq Babaqi Open the ORCID record for Tareq Babaqi [Opens in a new window]  and
Béla Vizvári Open the ORCID record for Béla Vizvári [Opens in a new window]
Aysun Pınarbaşı
Affiliation:
Department of Industrial Engineering, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, North Cyprus
Tareq Babaqi*
Affiliation:
Department of Industrial Engineering, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, North Cyprus
Béla Vizvári
Affiliation:
Department of Industrial Engineering, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, North Cyprus
*
Correspondence and reprint requests to Tareq Babaqi, Department of Industrial Engineering, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, North Cyprus via Mersin 10, Turkey (e-mail: tareq.babaqi@cc.emu.edu.tr).
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Abstract

Objectives:

The purpose of this study is to analyze a strategy for the assignment and transportation of injured patients to hospital to decrease the demand on transportation, in both predisaster and postdisaster periods, on the Anatolian side of Istanbul.

Methods:

Two approaches are used in this study: a Voronoi diagram, and a heuristic approach to the problem of scheduling. A Voronoi diagram is used to divide the city into 74 regions, where each hospital has a certain region of responsibility. The transportation strategy of 1 hospital is modeled by minimizing the makespan (ie, the maximal completion time) and the work-in-process, which are used as different objectives in scheduling theory.

Results:

The total waiting time of 100 injured people was minimized to 13,036 min when a total of 3 vehicles was used in the studied region, on the Asian side of Istanbul. The transportation capacity and total operating capacity of the hospitals should be approximately equal.

Conclusions:

The people of Istanbul will be in a safer position if the suggested measures are implemented. This is an important consideration, as Istanbul is situated in a region where serious earthquakes are possible at any moment.

Keywords

disaster managementearthquakeheuristic methodhumanitarian logisticslist scheduling
Type
Original Research
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , April 2022 , pp. 510 - 519
Copyright
© 2020 Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc.

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