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- Title
VTOL aircraft in emergency planning and management: a model for a helipad network.
- Authors
Caprì, Salvatore; Ignaccolo, Matteo; Inturri, Giuseppe
- Abstract
The scientific literature regarding HEMS (Helicopter Emergency Medical Service) planning lacks a method for defining optimal sites for helipads that takes into account risk distribution and hospital location. Such a method could minimise overall rescue time in emergency situations. In this paper a method that supports the decisions taken by disaster planners and managers is developed, focusing on the quantification of necessary air resources for the management of some probable calamities. Given a region characterised by a natural and non-natural disaster risk map, along with a comprehensive transport system (also characterised by a risk map), a set of emergency destinations (hospitals), a set of heliports/helipads dislocated on the territory and a number of available HEMS rotorcraft, the aim of the paper is to assess the adequacy of the VTOL/FATO (Vertical Take-Off and Landing/Final Take-Off and Landing Area) system in order to deal with a set of possible emergencies.
- Subjects
MEDICAL care; CRISIS management; EMERGENCY management; HAZARD mitigation; NATURAL disasters; DISASTERS; PUBLIC health; MEDICINE; HELICOPTERS; HELIPORTS
- Publication
Disasters, 2009, Vol 33, Issue 1, p82
- ISSN
0361-3666
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-7717.2008.01063.x