Endogenous stochastic optimisation for relief distribution assisted with unmanned aerial vehicles
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Author(s)
Escribano Macias, Jose
Goldbeck, Nils
Hsu, Pei-Yuan
Angeloudis, Panagiotis
Ochieng, Washington
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been increasingly viewed as useful tools to assist humanitarian response in recent years. While organisations already employ UAVs for damage assessment during relief delivery, there is a lack of research into formalising a problem that considers both aspects simultaneously. This paper presents a novel endogenous stochastic vehicle routing problem that coordinates UAV and relief vehicle deployments to minimise overall mission cost. The algorithm considers stochastic damage levels in a transport network, with UAVs surveying the network to determine the actual network damages. Ground vehicles are simultaneously routed based on the information gathered by the UAVs. A case study based on the Haiti road network is solved using a greedy solution approach and an adapted genetic algorithm. Both methods provide a significant improvement in vehicle travel time compared to a deterministic approach and a non-assisted relief delivery operation, demonstrating the benefits of UAV-assisted response.
Date Issued
2020-08-18
Date Acceptance
2020-08-07
Citation
OR SPECTRUM, 2020, 42 (4), pp.1089-1125
ISSN
0171-6468
Publisher
SPRINGER
Start Page
1089
End Page
1125
Journal / Book Title
OR SPECTRUM
Volume
42
Issue
4
Copyright Statement
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EPSRC
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http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000560617500001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
Grant Number
EP/L016826/1
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Operations Research & Management Science
Relief optimisation
Endogenous uncertainty
Damage assessment
Unmanned aerial vehicles
LOGISTICS NETWORK DESIGN
MATHEMATICAL-MODEL
ROUTING PROBLEM
HUMANITARIAN
ACCESSIBILITY
REPAIR
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2020-08-18