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A disaster logistics manager always struggles how relief items can be allocated among victims to bring maximum benefits. The most critical aspect, often ignored, is the shortage of information in post-disaster situation that creates confusion and difficulties in relief allocation. This study proposes an agent based model for comparing different relief allocation strategies in an environment of limited information. The authors have validated the model by agent’s behavior observation after the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake, Japan. Logistics manager shows dynamic decision making behavior and can utilize one of the three updated strategies. These are (1) Rigid push strategy (RPS) (2) Semi rigid push strategy (SRPS) and (3) Adjusted push strategy (APS). APS shows better performance in the criteria of average shortage per day and average perish per day when shelter capacity is lower or there are variations of shelter capacity among shelters.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABR20 Standing Committee on the Logistics of Disaster Response and Business Continuity.

01618707

17-03740

English

15p

2017

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Analysis; Decision making; Disaster relief; Earthquakes; Freight traffic; Information dissemination; Logistics; Resource allocation; Validation

Japan

Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Security and Emergencies

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-03740

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 8 2016 11:25AM