Designing Large-Scale Disaster Response Routes Network in Mitigating Earthquake Risk Using a Multi-Objective Stochastic Approach

Abstract

The disaster response routes play a crucial role in transporting injured people and goods during the 72 golden hours after disaster. These routes connect the major disaster relief centers. Prior identification of the disaster response routes for a city enables the response teams to reach the disaster locations quickly and conduct relief and rescue operations without being obstructed by the outbound flow of evacuees from the city. These routes should not generally be used by the public unlike the evacuation routes. In this paper, a multi-objective stochastic disaster response routes design problem is presented. In this study, with the goal of reducing vulnerability, the disaster response routes network can be protected against disaster scenarios to maintain its connectivity using more independent routes. An exact approach including a bounded objective function method for considering the multi-objective functions, including the network factors (OD connectivity, vulnerability, and management) and an exact method (branch-and-cut) for solving the proposed model are suggested. The results for Sioux-Falls and Tehran networks show the effectiveness of the model.