THE CALCULATION OF THE BARYCENTER AS A CRITERION FOR DETERMINING THE LOCATION OF THE AMBULANCE OPERATIONAL BASE

ABSTRACT This article presents an analysis to determine the location of the operational base of the ambulance dispatch service by applying the barycenter calculation, using as an object of study the Emergency Medical Assistance Service - SAMU. The research was performed by the quantitative modeling method, through an applied research, so that the results could be used to solve the following problem: How to determine the location of an operational base according to service history? Thus, the objective of this paper is to evaluate the applicability of Operational Research, through the barycenter calculation method as a tool to determine the best location of the operational base. To this end, we analyzed the history of 19,711 calls made from 2010 to 2016, using the software “R-Studio” for a quantitative treatment, which resulted in the proposition of a viable and reliable solution to the problem, validating the method proposed.