Impact of Fairness Constraints on Average Service Accessibility in Emergency Medical System

Healthcare represents one of the most important disciplines to ensure certain life quality for human beings. Its importance can be fully shown mainly in emergency situations, in which health or life finds itself in direct danger. Emergency medical service systems face significant challenges and they should perform as effectively as possible. From the viewpoint of clients, to whom the associated service is provided, one of the most important and most frequently used criteria in system optimization takes into account service accessibility for clients. Thus, the usual objective can be expressed by minimization of the distance to the nearest source of service from each client location. This paper focuses on additional fairness constraints, which take into account those clients, which are far from any located service center. Presented computational study is aimed at investigation how these fairness constraints affect the computational demands of the problem and how much they may affect the average service accessibility for all clients.