Hazardous wastes pose increasing threats to people and environment during the processes of offsite collection,storage,treatment,and disposal.A novel game theoretic model,including two levels,is developed for the corre...Hazardous wastes pose increasing threats to people and environment during the processes of offsite collection,storage,treatment,and disposal.A novel game theoretic model,including two levels,is developed for the corresponding optimization of emergency logistics,where the upper level indicates the location and capacity problem for the regulator,and the lower level reflects the allocation problem for the emergency commander.Different from other works in the literature,we focus on the issue of multi-quality coverages (full and partial coverages) in the optimization of facility location and allocation.To be specific,the regulator decides the location plan and the corresponding capacity of storing emergency groups for multiple types of hazmats,so to minimizes the total potential environmental risk posed by incident sites;while the commander minimizes the total costs to provide an efficient allocation policy.To solve the bi-level programming model,two solution techniques,namely a KKT condition approach and a heuristic model,are designed and compared.The proposed model and solution techniques are then applied to a hypothetical case and a real-world case to demonstrate the practicality and provide managerial insights.展开更多
Due to its harmful nature,any incident associated with hazardous material(hazmat)may cause tremendous impacts on the surrounding people and the environment.Focusing on the incident involving this specific type of good...Due to its harmful nature,any incident associated with hazardous material(hazmat)may cause tremendous impacts on the surrounding people and the environment.Focusing on the incident involving this specific type of good,we develop a reliable and robust emergency logistics network that considers both demand uncertainty and possible unavailability of particular links.A time-based risk measure is carefully designed upon the traditional risk assessment to reflect the stakeholder’s sensitivity to risk over response time.The disruption and uncertainty are modeled as two sets of scenarios which are integrated into a bi-objective robust model to evaluate the trade-offs between risk and cost.The effectiveness of the emergency response can be assured by expenditures that add extra capacities to certain links or establish additional facilities that aid recovery from incidents.We apply our model and approach to a real-world network in Guangdong China.Analytical results reveal the necessity of embedding consideration of uncertainty and unreliability into emergency network design problems;outline the importance of hedging against unpredictability by system redundancies;and indicate the impact of stakeholder’s orientation towards cost and risk on the location,allocation,and routing decisions in hazmat emergency response.展开更多
基金supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundations of China under grant No.61803091the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong province under grant No.2016A030310263as well as a Discovery Grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada under grant No.RGPIN-2015-04013.
文摘Hazardous wastes pose increasing threats to people and environment during the processes of offsite collection,storage,treatment,and disposal.A novel game theoretic model,including two levels,is developed for the corresponding optimization of emergency logistics,where the upper level indicates the location and capacity problem for the regulator,and the lower level reflects the allocation problem for the emergency commander.Different from other works in the literature,we focus on the issue of multi-quality coverages (full and partial coverages) in the optimization of facility location and allocation.To be specific,the regulator decides the location plan and the corresponding capacity of storing emergency groups for multiple types of hazmats,so to minimizes the total potential environmental risk posed by incident sites;while the commander minimizes the total costs to provide an efficient allocation policy.To solve the bi-level programming model,two solution techniques,namely a KKT condition approach and a heuristic model,are designed and compared.The proposed model and solution techniques are then applied to a hypothetical case and a real-world case to demonstrate the practicality and provide managerial insights.
基金This research has been supported by Discovery Grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada(grant#:RGPIN-2015-04013,RGPIN-2022-03514).
文摘Due to its harmful nature,any incident associated with hazardous material(hazmat)may cause tremendous impacts on the surrounding people and the environment.Focusing on the incident involving this specific type of good,we develop a reliable and robust emergency logistics network that considers both demand uncertainty and possible unavailability of particular links.A time-based risk measure is carefully designed upon the traditional risk assessment to reflect the stakeholder’s sensitivity to risk over response time.The disruption and uncertainty are modeled as two sets of scenarios which are integrated into a bi-objective robust model to evaluate the trade-offs between risk and cost.The effectiveness of the emergency response can be assured by expenditures that add extra capacities to certain links or establish additional facilities that aid recovery from incidents.We apply our model and approach to a real-world network in Guangdong China.Analytical results reveal the necessity of embedding consideration of uncertainty and unreliability into emergency network design problems;outline the importance of hedging against unpredictability by system redundancies;and indicate the impact of stakeholder’s orientation towards cost and risk on the location,allocation,and routing decisions in hazmat emergency response.
