Optimisation approaches for scheduling disaster emergency operations with multiple resources

Effective scheduling for emergency operations can substantially improve the disaster response phase, thereby reducing losses and fatalities. The thesis contributes generally to the development of various multi-resources scheduling models which can deal with different possible emergency scenarios. For the first time in resource scheduling research in emergency operation field, this thesis focused on the different resource types and quantities for scheduling, rather than simply transporting resources to demand points. A description of commonly encountered emergency resource scheduling problems is presented and taken into consideration. Drawing from this, practical mixed-integer programming formulations are proposed and tested to demonstrate how these models may be implemented.