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Integrated Road Reopening and Disaster Relief Programming: Problem Formulation and Solution Procedure

Dabiri, Sina | 2014

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  1. Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
  2. Language: Farsi
  3. Document No: 46405 (09)
  4. University: Sharif University of Technology
  5. Department: Civil Engineering
  6. Advisor(s): Poorzahedy, Hossain
  7. Abstract:
  8. This research deals with the joint problem of reopening the roads closed after a disastrous natural event and the damaged area relief programming. While these two problems are connected to each other by the joint resources of ruins and debris removal, they are usually treated separately in the literature, and their solutions are sought in practice by the art of experienced authorities. This study formulates a dynamic tri-level integer programming problem to represent the two problems of Road Reopening and Relief, in which the crisis manager has the objective of minimizing the death tolls over a planning time interval. It identifies the roads for reopening at the first level; and the second level problem solves the relief programming by the teams left from the operation specified at the third level for road reopening plan over the time periods. A Swarm intelligence based algorithm is proposed to solve this tri-level integer programming problem.
    The problem is solved for a test problem under several policies of assignment of teams to the damaged zones at the second level of the problem, and the results are discussed. The algorithm is applied on a test problem of Sioux Falls to show its applicability on larger size problems
  9. Keywords:
  10. Particles Swarm Optimization (PSO) ; Disasters ; Disaster Management ; Multi-level Programming ; Disaster Relief Network ; Road Reopening Program

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