Abstract
RURALSIM is a sophisticated computer simulation model designed as an aid in planning and evaluating rural emergency medical services (EMS) systems. Written in SIMULA, it has been successfully used in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, to study the potential effects of changes in existing vehicle placement and relocation strategies, vehicle dispatching policies and alternative forms of prehospital care, including the ability of the system to respond to a disaster.RURALSIM is a stochastic, dynamic, event-oriented computer model. Stochastic means that all random events, such as the occurrence of an incident, are generated according to appropriate probability distributions obtained from empirical data. Dynamic means that events occur over time and that the model selects the appropriate incident rates and response strategies for the particular time and day simulated.
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