Author
Koyuncu, Burcu Balçık
Publication Date
2017-05
Publication Place
-
Elsevier
Subject
Humanitarian needs assessment, Coverage, Purposive sampling, Team orienteering, Tabu search
Type
Periodical
Language
English
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Özyeğin University
Library Asset ID
1366-5545
Record ID
1a3af017-1cc3-45fc-a54f-3ea82f83755d
Library Location
Industrial Engineering
Date
2017-05
Notes
TÜBİTAK ; TUBA
Sample Text
In the immediate aftermath of a disaster, relief agencies perform rapid needs assessment to investigate the effects of the disaster on the affected communities. Since assessments must be performed quickly, visiting all of the sites in the affected region may not be possible. Therefore, assessment teams must decide which sites to select and visit during the assessment horizon. In this paper, we address site selection and routing decisions of the rapid needs assessment teams which aim to evaluate the post-disaster conditions of different community groups, each carrying a distinct characteristic. We define the Selective Assessment Routing Problem (SARP) that constructs an assessment plan to cover different characteristics in a balanced way. The SARP is formulated as a variant of the team orienteering problem with a coverage objective. We develop an efficient tabu search heuristic, which produces high-quality solutions for the SARP. We illustrate our approach with a case study, which is based on real-world data from the 2011 Van earthquake in Turkey.
DOI
10.1016/j.tre.2017.01.002
Cilt
101
