VTOL aircraft in emergency planning and management: a model for a helipad network |
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| Authors: | Caprì Salvatore Ignaccolo Matteo Inturri Giuseppe |
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| Institution: | Assistant Researcher, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Catania, Italy.;Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Catania, Italy.;Researcher, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Catania, Italy. |
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| 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. |
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| Keywords: | disaster management disaster planning Helicopter Emergency Medical Service helipad location rotorcraft |
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