Fast Post-Disaster Emergency Vehicle Scheduling

Disasters like terrorist attacks, earthquakes, hurricanes, and volcano eruptions are usually unpredictable events that affect a high number of people. We propose an approach that can be used as a decision support tool for a post-disaster response that allows the assignment of victims to hospitals and organizes their transportation via emergency vehicles. Exploiting Operational Research and Constraint Programming techniques we are able to compute assignments and schedules of vehicles that save more victims than heuristic based approaches.

[1]  Alexis Drogoul,et al.  Interactive Learning of Independent Experts' Criteria for Rescue Simulations , 2009, J. Univers. Comput. Sci..

[2]  W. Marsden.  I and J , 2012 .

[3]  I. Nouaouri,et al.  Reactive Operating Schedule in Case of a Disaster : Arrival of Unexpected Victims , 2010 .

[4]  Bud Mishra,et al.  Multi-objective evolutionary optimization of agent-based models: An application to emergency response planning , 2006, Computational Intelligence.

[5]  Dídac Busquets,et al.  A Multiagent System for Coordinating Ambulances for Emergency Medical Services , 2008, IEEE Intelligent Systems.

[6]  Nezih Altay,et al.  OR/MS research in disaster operations management , 2006, Eur. J. Oper. Res..

[7]  Zati Aqmar Zaharudin,et al.  An application of the A* algorithm on the ambulance routing , 2011, 2011 IEEE Colloquium on Humanities, Science and Engineering.

[8]  Gilbert Laporte,et al.  Scheduling ambulance crews for maximum coverage , 2010, J. Oper. Res. Soc..

[9]  Josep Lluís de la Rosa i Esteva,et al.  A Real Time Approach for Task Allocation in a Disaster Scenario , 2010, PAAMS.

[10]  Brahim Chaib-draa,et al.  Multiagent Systems Viewed as Distributed Scheduling Systems: Methodology and Experiments , 2005, Canadian Conference on AI.

[11]  Keiichi Yasumoto,et al.  Transportation Scheduling Method for Patients in MCI using Electronic Triage Tag , 2011, eTELEMED 2011.

[12]  Antonio Moreno,et al.  Management of Hospital Teams for Organ Transplants Using Multi-agent Systems , 2001, AIME.

[13]  Ozden Tozanli,et al.  Emergency Vehicle Routing in Disaster Response Operations , 2012 .

[14]  S. Tufekci,et al.  The Emerging Area Of Emergency Management And Engineering , 1998 .

[15]  Peter Värbrand,et al.  Decision support for efficient ambulance logistics , 2005 .