Scheduling evacuation operations

Kaouthar Deghdak (), Vincent T’kindt () and Jean-Louis Bouquard ()
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Kaouthar Deghdak: University François Rabelais Tours
Vincent T’kindt: University François Rabelais Tours
Jean-Louis Bouquard: University François Rabelais Tours

Journal of Scheduling, 2016, vol. 19, issue 4, No 8, 467-478

Abstract: Abstract In this paper, we consider a large-scale evacuation problem after a major disaster. The evacuation is assumed to occur by means of a fleet of buses, thus leading to scheduling the evacuation operations by buses [(bus evacuation problem (BEP)]. We propose time-indexed formulations as well as heuristic algorithms such as greedy algorithms and a matheuristic. This matheuristic uses the former formulation to improve the best solution obtained by the greedy heuristics. In computational experiments, we analyze and evaluate the efficiency of the proposed solution algorithms.

Keywords: Evacuation scheduling; Time-indexed formulation; Preprocessing; Greedy heuristic; Matheuristic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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