Scenario based dynamic emergency resources allocation under the consideration of domino effect for earthquake response planning

Abstract

Earthquake is a natural disaster or catastrophe which can lead to death, property damage leaving huge economic loss in the society. Emergency resource allocation that predominantly conducts with how to effectively and systematically response and distribute necessary resources of rescue teams to the rescue teams to deal emerging incidents of an earthquake and alleviate fatalities and economic issues, has been widely used as one of the most indispensable tools in emergency resource management for natural disasters such as earthquake. To the best of my knowledge, the existing deterministic techniques are utilized on emergency response which is only for used in single incident and too facile to be utilized in complex emergency situations. However, resources are short in supply and response when an earthquake occurred. In such cases, emergency resource allocation model can be utilized for effectively and efficiently allocating resources. Therefore, this study deals with multi objective model that can be utilized effectively in response of food demand, rescue and emergency personnel. The developed model has focused on both risk minimization and food supply to the affected areas; thus, multiple objectives are also fulfilled through this model. This model showed that risk remaining factors are minimized with minimized objective functions and increased adequate food supply. Domino effects were also analyzed to reduce the incidents’ propagation that triggers other adjacent units.