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LavanyaMarla SystemsScientist,CMU
CMUTeam
Prof.Ramayya Krishnan Lavanya Marla Yisong Yue Aayush Kumar UnderstandingoperationsinHyderabad
Publicprivatepartnership
Funding:95%stategov,5%privatepartner Nofeeschargedforservice(paidbystate)
Highlyresourceconstrained
75Mpeople,75ambulancebases(AP)
Cellphonebasedcommunications
Challenges at EMRI
Publicacceptability
Cleartrafficforambulance
Competitionwithadhocnetworks
Decreasesutilizationofambulances
Norealtimepositionavailability Newcities
Newtrafficpatterns Highrisebuildingswithoutelevators Newmodesoftransport
Key Concepts
Networkconsistsofambulanceslocatedatbases Eachbaseservicescallsthatariseinasetofgridsaround it Thedefault(EMRI)modelistohaveoneambulancein eachbasetoservecallsintheassociatedgrids Acallthatisservicedconsistsoftheambulancearriving fromthebasetoasceneandthentakingthepatienttoa hospitalfromthesceneandthenreturningtobase
Design Principles
Consistencywithcurrentdispatchingmodel
Assignnearestfreeambulanceavailable Priorityorderforambulances
Donotaddextrabasesthanthose determinedbyEMRI
Logisticalchallenges
Donotaddextraambulances Derivecongestioninformationfromdatalogs
30 min
Dependency Graph
(15 min)
25 min
Simulation framework
Basedoncalllogswecanmodel: Callcongestionpatterns Chainsandotherlongrangesystem effects Utilizationofvariousbaselocations
Mathematical formulation
G =dependencygraph C(G) =totalcostofgraphG T(G,S) =modifieddependencygraphwithchangeS toallocation Changeinobjective(F): F(G,S)=C(G)- C(T(G,S) F(G,S):
Monotonicallyincreasing Orderinvariant Approximatelysubmodular
Simulation-optimization approach
Goal:AllocateNambulancesamongMbases
Number ambulances added<N? Addone ambulance periteration
Testaddinganambulanceatlocationm M
Simulate calls
Simulate calls
Simulate calls
Findlocationm*withmostimprovement Addambulanceatm*
Visualization tool(2)
n t h Metric e
#Callsw/BasetoScene< 15min
CurrentEMRI Optimized
Improvement
*Measuredusingsimulationbasedononemonthofdata
Newroutes?
Crowdsource/obtaintrafficinformationfrom otherambulances Communicationbetweenambulancestoshare trafficdata(Prof.Ramayya Krishnan)
Choosetheonewhicharrivesfirst
Realtimeambulance deployment:
Predicthighdemandregions Systemstress Repositionambulancesin realtime Realtimepositiondata
Ambulance Location
Dynamic Reposition
TRAFFIC MODELING