Efficiency experts seek to save precious minutes in deploying ambulances

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From left Huseyin Topaloglu Mateo Restrepo and Shane Henderson in Hendersons office in Rhodes Hall. The laptop shows a simulation of ambulance calls that the researchers are working to perfect. Credit: Anne JuCornell Chronicle
From left, Huseyin Topaloglu, Mateo Restrepo and Shane Henderson in Henderson's office in Rhodes Hall. The laptop shows a simulation of ambulance calls that the researchers are working to perfect. Credit: Anne Ju/Cornell Chronicle

Every extra second it takes an ambulance to get to its destination can mean life or death. But how, besides driving faster, can ambulances get emergency services to people in need as efficiently as possible, every day? It's a classic operations research question that three Cornell researchers are tackling in groundbreaking ways.


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