Ambulance DES

Building an open reproducible DES model of ambulance operations.

Work in progress!

This work is part of the STARS project, supported by the Medical Research Council [grant number MR/Z503915/1].

To discuss:

• Add names and organisations here yet?

Prerequisite knowledge for reusing this model

To make effective use of this model, some background knowledge may be helpful. You can find lots of relevant material in the DES RAP Book. At a minimum, we suggest:

• Discrete-event simulation - what DES is, how it represents systems, and why it is commonly used in healthcare modelling.
• Initialisation bias and warm-up periods - why simulation models can produce biased early results, and how warm-up periods help address this.
• Object-oriented programming (OOP) - useful background for understanding how the model code is structured.