Preprint
The Flood Mitigation Problem in a Road Network
ArXiv.org
02/15/2023
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2302.07983
Abstract
Natural disasters are highly complex and unpredictable. However, long-term
planning and preparedness activities can help to mitigate the consequences and
reduce the damage. For example, in cities with a high risk of flooding,
appropriate roadway mitigation can help reduce the impact of floods or high
waters on transportation systems. Such communities could benefit from a
comprehensive assessment of mitigation on road networks and identification of
the best subset of roads to mitigate. In this study, we address a pre-disaster
planning problem that seeks to strengthen a road network against flooding. We
develop a network design problem that maximizes the improvement in
accessibility and travel times between population centers and healthcare
facilities subject to a given budget. We provide techniques for reducing the
problem size to help make the problem tractable. We use cities in the state of
Iowa in our computational experiments.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Flood Mitigation Problem in a Road Network
- Creators
- Vahid Eghbal AkhlaghiAnn Melissa CampbellIbrahim Demir
- Resource Type
- Preprint
- Publication Details
- ArXiv.org
- DOI
- 10.48550/arxiv.2302.07983
- ISSN
- 2331-8422
- Language
- English
- Date posted
- 02/15/2023
- Academic Unit
- Electrical and Computer Engineering; Civil and Environmental Engineering; Injury Prevention Research Center; Business Analytics
- Record Identifier
- 9984367186002771
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