Metaheuristics for capacitated vehicle routing for flood victims evacuation

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Contributors

  • Hafiz Suliman Munawar - , University of New South Wales (Author)
  • Ahmed W.A. Hammad - , University of New South Wales (Author)
  • S. Travis Waller - , Chair of Transport Modelling and Simulation (Author)
  • Mohammad Mojtahedi - , University of New South Wales (Author)
  • Junaid Akram - , University of Sydney (Author)

Abstract

Over the last decade, there has been a rise in extreme weather events which has affected the lives and wellbeing of the community. In Australia, frequent flooding has impacted the Hawkesbury-Nepean valley consequential in the loss of lives, animals, and property. This necessitates enhanced flood risk management through innovative response and evacuation strategies. Timely evacuation of victims from disaster-prone areas reduces the number of casualties. To save a maximum number of victims from the flood-prone area by optimum utilisation of resources requires computational approaches. This study proposes an Artificial Bee Colony algorithm to evacuate age care facility residents in the Hawkesbury-Nepean Valley. The results show that the proposed model can help the response managers to make decisions within appropriate computational time. The proposed model will facilitate the decision-makers to make timely decisions based on the number of victims, available transport facilities, and optimum scheduling and routing. Index Terms - Hawkesbury-Nepean valley, aged care facilities, flood risk management, Artificial Bee Colony algorithm, evacuation response, Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2nd International Conference on Advances in Communication Technology and Computer Engineering (ICACTCE’22)
Publication statusPublished - 11 Jul 2023
Peer-reviewedYes

Publication series

SeriesAIP Conference Proceedings
Number1
Volume2814
ISSN0094-243X

Conference

Title2nd International Conference on Advances in Communication Technology and Computer Engineering, ICACTCE 2022
Duration24 - 25 June 2022
CityMeknes
CountryMorocco

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-2939-2090/work/161887594

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