A mixed integer programming model for allocation and scheduling rescue teams in natural disaster considering damage routes

In disaster operations management, a challenging task for rescue organizations occurs when they have to assign and schedule their rescue units to emerging incidents under time pressure in order to reduce the overall resulting harm. In This study addresses the allocation and scheduling rescue teams as the natural disaster management problem. For this purpose, a Non-Linear Mixed Integer Programming (MINLP) is propose to minimize the total weighted sum of completion times of incidents. The rescue units also have different capability and each incident just can be allocated to a rescue unit that has the ability to do it, Also, in this research routes condition is considered and scheduling of jobs are done due to the conditions of the way of communication. It is assumed that incidents and rescue units are jobs and machine respectively. Therefore, the problem is formulated as a parallel-machine scheduling problem with unrelated machines. The proposed model issolved with LINGO 9 software and the obtained results are analyzed.

Keywords:

Natural Disaster Management , Allocation and scheduling , Damage routes