Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
The transportation problem and patient travel to physicians and hospitals
Conclusions The aim of these experiments was to discover whether some very simple modifications of the transportation model could be found to take advantage of the efficiency implications by shifting hospital capacities and to gain realism by recognizing some distance indifference and thereby increase significantly the number of paths taken. These experiments seem successful and the simple elegance of the transportation model preserved. We could have forced more paths to be taken by imposing capacity constraints on particular paths. This is reasonable in the case of shipments via scheduled carriers, such as airline movements, but not for our problem of patient visits to hospitals where there is no rational basis for adding capacity limits. In spite of the success of these experiments the programming approach as such may not be the most satisfactory. Indeed, a modified gravity model approach may better capture patient perception and behavior. Nevertheless, these programming modifications may serve to increase the range of applicability and the realism of results of the transportation model. By introducing variable distance perception we may look upon the modified solution as a fuller measure of optimum behavior rather than a departure from it.
The transportation problem and patient travel to physicians and hospitals
Conclusions The aim of these experiments was to discover whether some very simple modifications of the transportation model could be found to take advantage of the efficiency implications by shifting hospital capacities and to gain realism by recognizing some distance indifference and thereby increase significantly the number of paths taken. These experiments seem successful and the simple elegance of the transportation model preserved. We could have forced more paths to be taken by imposing capacity constraints on particular paths. This is reasonable in the case of shipments via scheduled carriers, such as airline movements, but not for our problem of patient visits to hospitals where there is no rational basis for adding capacity limits. In spite of the success of these experiments the programming approach as such may not be the most satisfactory. Indeed, a modified gravity model approach may better capture patient perception and behavior. Nevertheless, these programming modifications may serve to increase the range of applicability and the realism of results of the transportation model. By introducing variable distance perception we may look upon the modified solution as a fuller measure of optimum behavior rather than a departure from it.
The transportation problem and patient travel to physicians and hospitals
Morrill, Richard L. (Autor:in) / Schultz, Ronald (Autor:in)
1971
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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