Abstract
<p style='text-indent:20px;'>The initial period after the earthquake is the prime time for disaster relief. During this period, it is of great value to rationally locate the transfer facilities of relief materials and effectively arrange the transportation of relief materials. Considering the characteristics of the two-level emergency logistics system including uncertain demand, uncertain transportation time, multiple varieties of relief materials, shortage of supply, multi-transportation modes and different urgencies of relief material demand, the integrated issue with the concern of transfer facility location and relief material transportation is studied. Then, this problem is formulated as a grey mixed integer bi-level nonlinear programming in which the upper-level aims at the shortest relief material transportation time and the lower-level aims at the maximum fairness of relief material distribution. According to the characteristics of the model, a hybrid genetic algorithm is designed to solve the proposed model. Finally, a numerical simulation is carried out on the background of 5.12 Wenchuan Earthquake. In addition, the validation of the proposed model and algorithm is verified.</p>
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