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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2019.20.12.167

A Study on the Reduction of Waiting Time and Moving Distance through Optimal Allocation of Service Space in a Health Examination Center  

Kim, Suk-Tae (Dept. of Interior Architecture, Inje University)
Oh, Sung-Jin (Dept. of Interior Design, Kyungnam College of Information & Technology)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.20, no.12, 2019 , pp. 167-175 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, health examination centers have been changing from auxiliary medical facilities to key and independent medical facilities. However, it is not easy to improve medical facilities, including health examination centers, due to the variable characteristics of the relationship between humans and space. Therefore, this study was done to develop a pedestrian-based discrete event simulation analysis program to examine the problems and develop methods for improvement. The program was developed to analyze five evaluation indices and the density of examinees. The problems were derived by analyzing the required time, capacity, and queue size for each examination through simulations. We reduced the examination time and moving distance, increased the capacity, and distributed the queues by adjusting the medical services and relocating the examination rooms. The results were then quantitatively verified by simulations.
Keywords
DES; Medical Facility; ABM; Health Examination Center; Spatial Configuration;
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