Robust stochastic vehicle routing and scheduling for bushfire emergency evacuation: An Australian case study

S Shahparvari, B Abbasi - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and …, 2017 - Elsevier
This study proposes a stochastic modeling approach as an evacuation decision support
system to determine the required vehicles, scheduling and routes under uncertainties in …

Enhancing emergency evacuation response of late evacuees: Revisiting the case of Australian Black Saturday bushfire

S Shahparvari, P Chhetri, B Abbasi… - … research part E: logistics …, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper develops a multi-objective integer programming model to support tactical
planning decision-making during a short-notice evacuation using the situated context of the …

Fleet routing and scheduling in bushfire emergency evacuation: A regional case study of the Black Saturday bushfires in Australia

S Shahparvari, B Abbasi, P Chhetri… - … research part D: transport …, 2019 - Elsevier
Evacuation planning provides evidence base for effective decision-making in various
aspects of disaster response, such as the selection of safe shelters, dynamic assignment of …

Balancing traffic flow in the congested mass self-evacuation dynamic network under tight preparation budget: An Australian bushfire practice

M Afkham, R Ramezanian, S Shahparvari - Omega, 2022 - Elsevier
Disaster preparation budget plays a key role in the success of an emergency response
operation. This research presents a novel bi-level model for mass self-evacuation discrete …

Possibilistic scheduling routing for short-notice bushfire emergency evacuation under uncertainties: An Australian case study

S Shahparvari, B Abbasi, P Chhetri - Omega, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper aims to develop a capacitated vehicle routing solution to evacuate short-notice
evacuees with time windows and disruption risks under uncertainties during a bushfire. A …

[HTML][HTML] How contraflow enhances clearance time during assisted mass evacuation–A case study exploring the Australian 2013–14 Gippsland bushfires

S Shahparvari, M Mohammadi, K Peszynski… - … Research Part A: Policy …, 2024 - Elsevier
Evacuation during a catastrophic disaster is a crucial operation that needs to be
appropriately managed and is of more importance when considering the elderly and people …

Identifying critical corridors during an area-wide disruption by evaluating network bottleneck capacity

SJ Ohi, AM Kim - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper applies the min-cut max-flow theorem combined with a grid cell disruption
method over a large transportation network, to identify the importance of network locations in …

[HTML][HTML] Fair dynamic resource allocation in transit-based evacuation planning

S Aalami, L Kattan - Transportation research part C: emerging technologies, 2018 - Elsevier
Resource allocation in transit-based emergency evacuation is studied in this paper. The
goal is to find a method for allocation of resources to communities in an evacuation process …

[PDF][PDF] Factors influencing householder self-evacuation in two Australian bushfires

K Strahan - 2017 - core.ac.uk
Following Wisner (Wisner, Blaikie, Cannon, & Davis, 2004), disasters occur when people
are caught between economic, social, cultural, ethnic and other processes that generate …

A Parallel Genetic Algorithm With Variable Neighborhood Search for the Vehicle Routing Problem in Forest Fire-Fighting

X Li, N Chen, H Ma, F Nie… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the challenge of making online decisions in the face of escalating losses, the vehicle
routing problem in forest fire-fighting places great emphasis on the computing efficiency of …