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In this paper, we consider a large-scale evacuation problem after a major disaster. The evacuation is assumed to occur by means of a fleet of buses, thus leading to scheduling the evacuation operations by buses [(bus evacuation problem (BEP)]. We propose time-indexed formulations as well as heuristic algorithms such as greedy algorithms and a matheuristic. This matheuristic uses the former formulation to improve the best solution obtained by the greedy heuristics. In computational experiments, we analyze and evaluate the efficiency of the proposed solution algorithms.
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This research has been supported by ANR-11-SECU-002-01, project DSS_EVAC_LOGISTIQUE (CSOSG 2011).
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Deghdak, K., T’kindt, V. & Bouquard, JL. Scheduling evacuation operations. J Sched 19, 467–478 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10951-015-0461-x
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