Distribution Of Shelters Research Articles

A Multi-Objective Stochastic Model for an Earthquake Relief Network

Earthquake relief network involves storage and distribution of relief aid to people in need. In this paper, a new stochastic multi-objective mixed integer mathematical model is developed and implemented in Kadikoy municipality of Istanbul, Turkey in order to configure part of the earthquake relief network. The aim of the model is to help decision makers decide on the locations of storage areas for shelters pre-earthquake and distribution of shelters from these areas to temporary shelter areas post-earthquake while minimizing earthquake scenario-specific total expected distribution distance, total expected earthquake damage risk factor of storage areas and expected total penalty cost related to unsatisfied demand at temporary shelter areas, simultaneously. In the model, storage area capacity and coverage distance restrictions are taken into consideration. The data related to potential storage areas and shelter locations were obtained from Kadikoy municipality of Istanbul and Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM). The earthquake damage risk factors were determined based on possible earthquake scenarios given in Japan International Cooperation Agency’s (JICA) report. Four event scenarios with two different earthquake scenario likelihoods were considered and sample efficient solutions from the Pareto frontier were obtained implementing the normalized (scaled) weighted sum method.

“Robots in Space” Multiagent Problem: Complexity, Information and Cryptographic Aspects

We study a multiagent algorithmic problem that we call Robot in Space (RinS): There are n ≥ 2 autonomous robots, that need to agree without outside interference on distribution of shelters, so that straight pathes to the shelters will not intersect. The problem is closely related to the assignment problem in Graph Theory, to the convex hull problem in Combinatorial Geometry, or to the path-planning problem in Artificial Intelligence. Our algorithm grew up from a local search solution of the problem suggested by E.W. Dijkstra. We present a multiagent anonymous and scalable algorithm (protocol) solving the problem, give an upper bound for the algorithm, prove (manually) its correctness, and examine two communication aspects of the RinS problem — the informational and cryptographic. We proved that (1) there is no protocol that solves the RinS, which transfers a bounded number of bits, and (2) suggested the protocol that allows robots to check whether their paths intersect, without revealing additional information about their relative positions (with respect to shelters). The present paper continues the research presented in Mars Robot Puzzle (a Multiagent Approach to the Dijkstra Problem) (by E.V. Bodin, N.O. Garanina, and N.V. Shilov), published in Modeling and analysis of information systems, 18(2), 2011.

네트워크 분석을 이용한 보행속도에 따른 대피소 서비스 영역 분석

위급상황 발생시 국민의 안전을 위해 신속히 대피할 수 있는 대피소가 전국에 약 2만 5,724개소가 지정되어 있으며, 서울시의 경우 약 3,870개소가 지정되어 있다. 전국에 설치된 대피소는 신속한 대피를 위해 주변 반경 5분 이내에 도착할 수 있는 위치에 지정되어 있으며, 서울시의 대피소 수용능력은 서울인구의 285%를 수용할 수 있다. 하지만 문제는 보행자의 나이, 신장, 건강상태, 신체조건 등과 같은 개인차에 의한 보행속도를 고려하였을 경우 5분 이내에 도착할 수 있는 대피소가 얼마나 되는지는 알 수 없다. 또한 대피소의 공간적 배분 및 분포에 따라 수용 가능한 서비스 영역이 달라지며, 이에 따른 취약지가 발생 할 수 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 선행연구사례를 통해서 보행자의 유형별 보행속도를 1m/s, 1.3m/s, 2m/s 정의하였고, 서울시에 지정된 대피소와 도로망을 이용하여 입지할당모형의 네트워크 분석을 실시하였다. 그 결과 서울시 행정구역별로 보행속도에 따른 대피소의 서비스 지역과 취약 지역을 알 수 있었으며, 노약자의 경우 대피소에 도달할 수 없는 취약 지역이 빠른 걸음의 성인남녀에 비해 2배 이상 큰 것으로 분석되었다. There are approximately 25,724 shelters to which people can be quickly evacuated for safety in case of emergency across the nation, and Seoul has about 3,870 shelters. Those nationwide shelters are located at a point within a five-minute radius for quick evacuation. Seoul's shelter capacity can hold 285% of its population. The problem is, however, that there is no knowing how many shelters are reachable within five minutes when considering walking speed according to individual differences in age, height, health state, and physical condition. In addition, available service areas become different according to the spatial allocation and distribution of shelters with possible vulnerable points. This study thus defined the pedestrian walking speed at 1m/s, 1.3m/s, and 2m/s by reviewing previous studies and conducted network analysis of the Location Allocation Model with the designated shelters and road networks in Seoul. The results identified the shelter service and vulnerable areas in each administrative district of Seoul according to walking speeds. It was analyzed that the vulnerable areas in which the elderly could not reach a shelter were more than twice as big as those of adult men and women with a fast walking speed.

Life cycle assessment of the production and use of polypropylene tree shelters

A detailed Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has been conducted for the manufacture, use and disposal of polypropylene tree shelters, which are used to protect young seedlings in the first few years of growth. The LCA was conducted using Simapro software, the Ecoinvent database and ReCiPe assessment methodology. Detailed information on materials, manufacturing, packaging and distribution of shelters was obtained from Tubex Ltd. in South Wales, UK. Various scenarios based on different forest establishment methods, with or without tree shelters were derived and analysed using data from published literature and independent sources. The scenarios included commercial forestry in northern temperate conditions, amenity forest establishment in temperate conditions, and forest establishment in semi-arid conditions. For commercial forestry, a reduction in required seedling production and planting as well as additional time-averaged wood production led to significant benefits with tree shelters, both compared to unprotected and fenced cases. For the amenity forest scenarios, tree shelter use had a net environmental impact, while for semi-arid forestry, the benefits of reduction in water use outweighed shelter production impacts. The current practice of in-situ degradation was compared to collection and disposal and it was found that in-situ degradation was slightly preferable in terms of overall environmental impact. Use of biopolymer-based shelters would improve the environmental performance slightly.

The effect of an artificial windbreak on the distribution of aphids in a lettuce crop

SUMMARYOn an exposed plot the distribution of lettuce damaged by lettuce root aphid (Pemphigus bursarius L.) in summer was correlated with the distribution of shelter, produced by an artificial windbreak, when the aphids were migrating in spring.