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Over the past thirty-five years, a tremendous body of both theoretical and empirical research has been established on the `science of transportation'. The Handbook of Transportation Science has collected and synthesized this research into a systematic treatment of this field covering its fundamental concepts, methods, and principles. The purpose of this handbook is to define transportation as a scientific discipline that transcends transportation technology and methods. Whether by car, truck, airplane - or by a mode of transportation that has not yet been conceived - transportation obeys fundamental properties. The science of transportation defines these properties, and demonstrates how our knowledge of one mode of transportation can be used to explain the behavior of another. Transportation scientists are motivated by the desire to explain spatial interactions that result in movement of people or objects from place to place. Its methodologies draw from physics, operations research, probability and control theory. It is fundamentally a quantitative discipline, relying on mathematical models and optimization algorithms to explain the phenomena of transportation. The fourteen chapters in the handbook are written by the leading researchers in transportation science in an effort to define and categorize for the first time the scientific nature and state of the art of the field. As such, it is directed to the broader research community, transportation practitioners, and future transportation scientists.

Transport. Traffic --- Transportation --- Research --- Research. --- Operations research. --- Decision making. --- Regional economics. --- Spatial economics. --- Industrial organization. --- Operations Research/Decision Theory. --- Regional/Spatial Science. --- Industrial Organization. --- Industries --- Organization --- Industrial concentration --- Industrial management --- Industrial sociology --- Spatial economics --- Economics --- Regional economics --- Regional planning --- Regionalism --- Space in economics --- Deciding --- Decision (Psychology) --- Decision analysis --- Decision processes --- Making decisions --- Management --- Management decisions --- Choice (Psychology) --- Problem solving --- Operational analysis --- Operational research --- Industrial engineering --- Management science --- System theory --- Decision making --- Economics. --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- Transportation - Research

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Patient Flow: Reducing Delay in Healthcare Delivery is dedicated to improving healthcare through reducing the delays experienced by patients. One aspect of this goal is to improve the flow of patients, so that they do not experience unnecessary waits as they flow through a healthcare system. Another aspect is ensuring that services are closely synchronized with patterns of patient demand. Still another aspect is ensuring that ancillary services, such as housekeeping and transportation, are fully coordinate with direct patient care. It is the first book treatment to have reduction in patient delay as its sole focus, and therefore, provides the foundation by which hospitals can implement change. Reflecting the highly interdisciplinary and practitioner nature of this book, the chapters have been written by doctors, nurses, industrial engineers, system engineers and geographers, and thus, these perspectives provide the comprehensive view needed to address the problem of patient delay.

Health services administration --- Medical appointments and schedules --- Medical care --- Appointments and schedules (Medicine) --- Schedules, Medical --- Hospitals --- Medical offices --- Medicine --- Scheduling --- Health administration --- Health care administration --- Health care management --- Health sciences administration --- Health services management --- Health planning --- Public health administration --- Delivery of health care --- Delivery of medical care --- Health care --- Health care delivery --- Health services --- Healthcare --- Medical and health care industry --- Medical services --- Personal health services --- Public health --- Administration --- Practice --- Management --- Health services administration. --- Medical appointments and schedules. --- Medical care.

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Operational research. Game theory --- Hygiene. Public health. Protection --- Business policy --- Production management --- Computer. Automation --- volksgezondheid --- bedrijfsplanning --- bedrijfsorganisatie --- industrie --- medische informatica --- speltheorie --- operationeel onderzoek

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Patient Flow: Reducing Delay in Healthcare Delivery is dedicated to improving healthcare through reducing the delays experienced by patients. One aspect of this goal is to improve the flow of patients, so that they do not experience unnecessary waits as they flow through a healthcare system. Another aspect is ensuring that services are closely synchronized with patterns of patient demand. Still another aspect is ensuring that ancillary services, such as housekeeping and transportation, are fully coordinate with direct patient care. It is the first book treatment to have reduction in patient delay as its sole focus, and therefore, provides the foundation by which hospitals can implement change. Reflecting the highly interdisciplinary and practitioner nature of this book, the chapters have been written by doctors, nurses, industrial engineers, system engineers and geographers, and thus, these perspectives provide the comprehensive view needed to address the problem of patient delay.

Operational research. Game theory --- Hygiene. Public health. Protection --- Business policy --- Production management --- Computer. Automation --- volksgezondheid --- bedrijfsplanning --- bedrijfsorganisatie --- industrie --- medische informatica --- speltheorie --- operationeel onderzoek