Emergency medical center location problem with people evacuation solved by extended TODIM and objective programming

Ling Gai (), Zhiyue Peng (), Jiming Zhang () and Jiafu Zhang ()
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Ling Gai: Shanghai University
Zhiyue Peng: Shanghai University
Jiming Zhang: Shanghai University
Jiafu Zhang: Shanghai General Hospital

Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, No 0, 26 pages

Abstract: Abstract This study aims to decide the location of emergency medical centers and the evacuation of survivors after a disaster happened. An extended interactive multi-criteria decision making method (TODIM) with interval 2-tuple linguistic variables is proposed to evaluate the potential locations of the emergency medical centers. A bi-objective mixed-integer programming is then established to determine the final locations and the evacuation plan based on previous evaluations. A real case of an earthquake in Wenchuan, China in 2008 is analyzed to demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.

Keywords: Emergency medical center location; Evacuation; TODIM; Interval 2-tuple linguistic variables; Bi-objective mixed-integer programming (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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