TY - JOUR
T1 - Evacuation transportation planning under uncertainty
T2 - A robust optimization approach
AU - Yao, Tao
AU - Mandala, Supreet Reddy
AU - Chung, Byung Do
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgment The authors greatly acknowledge the discussions with Aharon Ben-Tal, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion — Israel Institute of Technology. This research is based on work supported in part by the NSF grant CMMI-0824640 and Marcus Fund.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - This paper considers evacuation via surface transportation networks in an uncertain environment. We focus on demand uncertainty which can lead to significant infeasibility cost during evacuation, where loss of life or property may appear. We develop a robust linear programming model based on a robust optimization approach where hard constraints are guaranteed within an appropriate uncertainty set. The robust counterpart solutions have been shown tractable. We show that the robustness in evacuation is important and a robust solution outperforms a nominal deterministic solution in both quality and feasibility.
AB - This paper considers evacuation via surface transportation networks in an uncertain environment. We focus on demand uncertainty which can lead to significant infeasibility cost during evacuation, where loss of life or property may appear. We develop a robust linear programming model based on a robust optimization approach where hard constraints are guaranteed within an appropriate uncertainty set. The robust counterpart solutions have been shown tractable. We show that the robustness in evacuation is important and a robust solution outperforms a nominal deterministic solution in both quality and feasibility.
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U2 - 10.1007/s11067-009-9103-1
DO - 10.1007/s11067-009-9103-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:67349145921
SN - 1566-113X
VL - 9
SP - 171
EP - 189
JO - Networks and Spatial Economics
JF - Networks and Spatial Economics
IS - 2
ER -