arXiv:2602.02736cs.CL2026-02

混合使用无人机与直升机,提升医疗物资运输效率

Time-Critical Multimodal Medical Transportation: Organs, Patients, and Medical Supplies

  • 设计贪心启发式算法,统筹调度地面救护车与空中飞行器
  • 全融合车队将运输时间减少37%,成本降低29%
  • 适合急救、器官移植等对时效性要求高的医疗场景

及时运送器官、患者和医疗物资对现代医疗至关重要,尤其在紧急情况和器官移植中,哪怕短暂停滞也会严重影响结果。传统地面车辆如救护车常受交通拥堵影响;直升机虽快但成本高昂。新兴的无人飞行器(UAV)和电动垂直起降飞机(eVTOL)运营成本较低,但仍受限于续航和天气条件。本研究提出一种构造性贪心启发式算法,用于多模式医疗运输调度。测试了四种车队配置:(i) 仅救护车,(ii) 救护车+无人机,(iii) 救护车+eVTOL,(iv) 全融合车队(救护车+无人机+eVTOL)。算法整合可兼容路线的载荷,考虑地面交通拥堵和空中天气影响,实现比复杂优化模型更快的车辆调度。在相同条件下评估四类车队,发现全融合车队在最小化运营成本、充电/燃油成本及总运输时间方面表现最优。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Timely transportation of organs, patients, and medical supplies is critical to modern healthcare, particularly in emergencies and transplant scenarios where even short delays can severely impact outcomes. Traditional ground-based vehicles such as ambulances are often hindered by traffic congestion; while air vehicles such as helicopters are faster but costly. Emerging air vehicles -- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft -- have lower operating costs, but remain limited by range and susceptibility to weather conditions. A multimodal transportation system that integrates both air and ground vehicles can leverage the strengths of each to enhance overall transportation efficiency. This study introduces a constructive greedy heuristic algorithm for multimodal vehicle dispatching for medical transportation. Four different fleet configurations were tested: (i) ambulances only, (ii) ambulances with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, (iii) ambulances with electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, and (iv) a fully integrated fleet of ambulances, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, and electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft. The algorithm incorporates payload consolidation across compatible routes, accounts for traffic congestion in ground operations and weather conditions in aerial operations, while enabling rapid vehicle dispatching compared to computationally intensive optimization models. Using a common set of conditions, we evaluate all four fleet types to identify the most effective configurations for fulfilling medical transportation needs while minimizing operating costs, recharging/fuel costs, and total transportation time.

医疗运输多模态调度无人机eVTOL

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