Effective and Equitable Supply of Gasoline to Impacted Areas in the Aftermath of a Natural Disaster
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-2017
Keywords
humanitarian logistics, disaster operations management, location, allocation
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2016.08.001
Abstract
The focus of this research is on supplying gasoline after a natural disaster. There are two aspects for this work: determination of which gas stations should be provided with generators (among those that do not have electric power) and determination of a delivery scheme that accounts for increased demand due to lack of public transportation and considerations such as equity. We develop a mixed integer program for this situation. Two case studies based on Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey are developed and solved in CPLEX. As expected, increasing equity increases cost and also tends to place generators to stations with large initial inventories. It is further observed that CPLEX can solve the largest instances of the problem for a 5% tolerance gap, indicating that the model is efficient.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, v. 57, p. 25-34
Scholar Commons Citation
Li, Xiaoping; Batta, Rajan; and Kwon, Changhyun, "Effective and Equitable Supply of Gasoline to Impacted Areas in the Aftermath of a Natural Disaster" (2017). Industrial and Management Systems Engineering Faculty Publications. 11.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/egs_facpub/11
