101. The Flood Fighting Problem: A Basic Model and Construction Heuristics
Invited abstract in session WB-11: OR and the Global South 1, stream OR in Developing Countries.
Wednesday, 10:45-12:15Room: U2-200
Authors (first author is the speaker)
| 1. | Karolin Eisele
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| Universität Duisburg-Essen | |
| 2. | Alf Kimms
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| Mercator School of Management, University of Duisburg-Essen, Campus Duisburg |
Abstract
Natural disasters such as floods occur more and more frequently due to climate change and claim many victims. If protective measures such as floodplains and dams are not sufficient or are damaged, emergency services must be deployed. In order to be able to deploy them as effectively as possible, we present a model for emergency response planning in the event of flooding.
There are no studies on this topic in the literature to date. For water spreading we use a cell-based approach.
We first present a basic model formulation. A priority rule procedure is developed and eight different priority rules are tested. A comprehensive calculation study illustrates the speed of the priority rules and identifies two rules as the best.
Keywords
- Disaster and Crisis Management
Status: accepted
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