Studies from University College Dublin Update Current Data on Networking (An Integrated User-system Approach for Shelter Location and Evacuation Routing)

2021 JUL 02 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Network Daily News -- New research on Networking is the subject of a report. According to news reporting originating from Dublin, Ireland, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Disasters are catastrophic events that can severely affect the life conditions of entire communities. Disaster-related issues are usually dealt with according to the Disaster Operations Management framework, which is composed of four phases: mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery.”

Financial support for this research came from Projekt DEAL.

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from University College Dublin, “This work focuses on two crucial operations belonging to the response phase: shelter location and evacuation of endangered populations. Specifically, the ultimate scope of this paper is to present some applications of a scenario-based mixed-integer two-stage linear program which integrates shelter location with two different types of evacuation, self- (or car-based) evacuation and supported- (or bus-based) evacuation, namely the Scenario-Indexed Shelter Location and Evacuation Routing (SISLER) model. The SISLER model is solved using an off-the-shelf optimization software, whose performance is improved through the addition of some valid inequalities which are added at the root node of the solution tree to improve the lower bound. Computational results are reported for both testbed instances and a realistic case study (Sioux Falls network).”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “The analysis of the solutions provides some useful managerial insights for relevant stakeholders working within the shelter location and evacuation planning area, such as emergency management practitioners and public service providers.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: An Integrated User-system Approach for Shelter Location and Evacuation Routing. Networks, 2021;78(1):46-68. Networks can be contacted at: Wiley, 111 River St, Hoboken 07030-5774, NJ, USA. (Wiley-Blackwell - http://www.wiley.com/; Networks - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1097-0037)

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Annunziata Esposito Amideo, University College Dublin, Ucd Quinn Sch Business, Dublin 4, Ireland. Additional authors for this research include Maria Paola Scaparra, Antonio Sforza and Claudio Sterle.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1002/net.22058. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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