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Alireza Eydi

Alireza Eydi

Academic rank: Professor
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Education: PhD.
ScopusId: 54974093700
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Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
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Phone: 08733664600-داخلی4347

Research

Title
The planning of the distribution of relief items and road network repair through multiple heterogeneous crews and prioritizing damaged roads under a flexible and uncertain environment
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
Location-allocation Scheduling Routing Prioritization Types of damage Uncertainty
Year
2024
Journal Computers & Industrial Engineering
DOI
Researchers Donya Veysmoradi ، Alireza Eydi ، Behnam Vahdani

Abstract

This study introduces an integrated and flexible program to coordinate two critical operations in the response phase of disaster management, namely the distribution of relief items and the repair of damaged roads under different types of road damage. In this regard, considerations such as the classification of critical areas according to the severity of the incident, location-allocation, scheduling, and routing of heterogeneous multiple crews, prioritization of road repair, sequence of operations, and the simultaneity of various activities are considered. Therefore, a new multi-period and multi-objective mathematical model is presented, where the first objective minimizes the total operation cost, the second objective minimizes the total operation time, and the third objective maximizes the prioritization of repairing damaged roads. Also, owing to the uncertain essence of a disaster, containing the types of demand and service time in each operation, a robust optimization approach is used to tackle this concern. The proposed model is ultimately checked for validation in a real case study. The acquired computational outcomes and presented managerial insights show the efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed model.