RESOURCE REDISTRIBUTION METHOD FOR SHORT-TERM RECOVERY OF SOCIETY AFTER LARGE-SCALE DISASTERS

Vasily Lubashevskiy (), Taro Kanno () and Kazuo Furuta ()
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Vasily Lubashevskiy: Department of Systems Innovations, School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
Taro Kanno: Department of Systems Innovations, School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
Kazuo Furuta: Department of Systems Innovations, School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan

Advances in Complex Systems (ACS), 2014, vol. 17, issue 05, 1-27

Abstract: Recovery of society after a large-scale disaster generally consists of two phases, short- and long-term recoveries. The main goal of the short-term recovery is to bounce the damaged system back to the operating standards enabling residents in damaged cities to survive, and fast supply with vital resources to them is one of its important elements. We propose a general principle by which the required redistribution of vital resources between the affected and neighboring cities can be efficiently implemented. The short-term recovery is a rescuer operation where uncertainty in evaluating the state of damaged region is highly probable. To allow for such an operation, the developed principle involves two basic components. The first one of ethic nature is the triage concept determining the current city priority in the resource delivery. The second one is the minimization of the delivery time subjected to this priority. Finally a certain plan of the resource redistribution is generated according to this principle. Several specific examples are studied numerically. It elucidates, in particular, the effects of system characteristics such as the city limit capacity in resource delivery, the type of initial resource allocation among the cities, the number of cities able to participate in the resource redistribution, and the damage level in the affected cities. As far as the uncertainty in evaluating the state of damaged region is concerned, some specific cases were studied. It assumes the initial communication system has crashed and formation of a new one and the resource redistribution proceed synchronously. The obtained results enable us to consider the resource redistribution plan governed by the proposed method semi-optimal and rather efficient especially under uncertainty.

Keywords: Recovery; humanitarian logistics; resilience; cooperation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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