Table 5 Summary of experimental parameters.

From: Research on efficient relief logistics planning under massive natural disasters

Category

Parameter

Vehicle routing algorithm

Facility planning algorithm

Target District

No. of facilities

20

Determined in this algorithm

Degree of Node (in road network)

[2, 5]

Road network among nodes

Randomly generated based on degree of node and determined total nodes

SAD

No. of nodes

[1, 4]

No. of candidate nodes for facility

1

No. of facilities

20

Determined in this algorithm

Node

Population

Small:\(\left[\text{217,836}/TN,\text{500,435}/TN\right]\)

Medium:\(\left[\text{500,436}/TN,\text{783,035}/TN\right]\)

Large:\(\left[\text{783,036}/TN,\text{1,062,636}/TN\right]\)(where\(TN=\sum(No.\;of\;Nodes)\;for\;\forall\;\;SADs\))

Demand

Demand generation cycle

Every 30 min

3 Days

Amount of a demand

Daily Necessity and Grocery: Equal to the number of evacuees increased. Medicine: 10%, 20%, and 30% of Grocery demands (These values are denoted as MDP: Medicine Demand Percentage)

Aggregated value for 3 days

Deadline of demand (min)

Daily Necessity and Grocery: Medicine:

Evacuation: None

Space requirement for evacuees

Not considered

Basically equal to the amount of Grocery at every 30 min and aggregated for 3 days

Vehicle

Speed

\(40\;\text{km}/\text{h}\)

Capacity

\(400\;\text{units}\)

Loading/unloading time

\(10\;\text{seconds}\)/Unit

Size of fleet

60

Determined in this algorithm

Cost

-

10,000,000 KRW

Facility

Fixed cost

-

[10,000,000, 40,000,000] KRW

Variable cost

Fixed facility

-

Necessity demand: [1,000,000, 3,000,000] KRW per 200 unit

Medicine demand: [500,000, 1,500,000] KRW per 50 unit

Evacuation demand: [1,000,000, 2,000,000] KRW per 5 evacuees

Temporary facility

-

Necessity demand: [1,000,000, 3,000,000] KRW per 200 unit

Medicine demand: [500,000, 1,500,000] KRW per 50 unit

Evacuation demand: [1,000,000, 2,000,000] KRW per 5 evacuees

Policy

Budget limit

 

High: 5,000 M KRW

Low: 3,000 M KRW

PRL

 

0.7, 0.5, 0.3

Allocation ratio

 

7:3 (Fixed: Temporary)

No. of experimental problem set

For DVRA:54 problems (3 types of number of residents × 3 types of MDP × 3 types of disaster × 2 levels of magnitude)

For ELS: 324 problems (2 levels of budget limit × 3 levels of reliability limit × 54(same with DVRA) )

Simulation run length for each experiment

3 days – vehicle routes are planned in every 30 min