Relocating emergency service vehicles with multiple coverage and critical levels partition

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A relocation strategy repositions idle emergency service (ES) vehicles to prevent some demand points from being uncovered. In this study, we consider an ES system, such as natural gas emergency services system, which involves satisfying multiple-coverage requirements of demand points. This system uses a compliance table strategy that denotes the base stations of available ES vehicles depending on the system state. As different from the relocation literature, we allow multiple vehicle assignments to stations. Additionally, we categorize the system states as critical and non-critical. We propos ...Daha fazlası