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Study on the model of hub location under earthquake conditions

  • Shi An*
  • , Lei Ye
  • , Candong Wang
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • School of Transportation Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Hubs play a significant role in the transport of emergency supplies after earthquakes. To ensure that transport and incident management operate efficiently under earthquake conditions, this paper presents a model for hub location suitable for the conditions of earthquakes. Taking the characteristics of road networks and freight transportation under the condition of earthquakes into account, the minimum of total supplies' reliable transit time under the service time constraints of kinds of supplies is the objective function of hub location under earthquake conditions. A surcharge is introduced in the cost function for those o/d pairs that were not being delivered to on time. The cost of waiting time due to congestion and the cost of reliable traveling time are considered. A Simulated Annealing algorithm was developed to solve the model. The algorithm has been tested in randomly-created networks. The results show that when a situation of congestion occurs, the proposed algorithm enables better solutions to be found.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 9th International Conference of Chinese Transportation Professionals, ICCTP 2009
Subtitle of host publicationCritical Issues in Transportation System Planning, Development, and Management
PublisherASCE - American Society of Civil Engineers
Pages1048-1055
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9780784410646
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event9th International Conference of Chinese Transportation Professionals, ICCTP 2009: Critical Issues in Transportation System Planning, Development, and Management - Harbin, China
Duration: 5 Aug 20099 Aug 2009

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 9th International Conference of Chinese Transportation Professionals, ICCTP 2009: Critical Issues in Transportation System Planning, Development, and Management
Volume358

Conference

Conference9th International Conference of Chinese Transportation Professionals, ICCTP 2009: Critical Issues in Transportation System Planning, Development, and Management
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHarbin
Period5/08/099/08/09

Keywords

  • Model of hub location under the condition of earthquake
  • Operations research
  • Reliable transit time
  • Surcharge overtime
  • Waiting time due to congestion

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