Cooperative Strategies in Two-Echelon Rescue Delivery Environment with Accessibility Uncertainty

Hanpeng Zhang, Yuxin Wu, Yi Liao and Yuvraj Gajpal
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Hanpeng Zhang: School of Business Administration, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu 610074, China
Yuxin Wu: School of Business Administration, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu 610074, China
Yi Liao: School of Business Administration, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu 610074, China
Yuvraj Gajpal: Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba, 181 Freedman Crescent, Winnipeg, MB R3T 5V4, Canada

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 13, 1-18

Abstract: Cooperation between rescue teams is important to improve rescue performance. Vehicles outside of the disaster area usually deliver rescue resources. A two-echelon rescue delivery model is proposed, considering the isolated island of the disaster area where all the roads to the outside are interrupted. This paper first presents a non-cooperation scenario and then a cooperation scenario in an uncertain environment. Furthermore, two types of cooperative strategies to improve rescue performance are provided in the paper. The two cooperative strategies are a reactive cooperative strategy and an anticipatory cooperative strategy. Numerical experiments are used to evaluate the rescue performances of the two cooperation strategies by comparing them with the non-cooperation scenario. The results reveal that the anticipatory cooperative strategy performs the best in different cases varying in size.

Keywords: cooperative strategy; emergency planning; vehicle routing problem; uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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