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Proposal for the Battle of Post-Disaster Response and Rehabilitation (BPDRR)

Part of the WDSA / CCWI 2018 Joint International Conference in Ontario was the Battle of Post-Disaster Response and Rehabilitation. Unfortunately no winner was declared, but I would like to share the solution Claudia Quintiliani and Simone Santopietro and I developed, using A Many Objective Optimization and a Greedy algorithm. You can read about or watch the eight minute video with step-by-step explanations.

Problem formulation

In this year’s problem five different Damage Scenarios are considered in which a set of pipes in a drinking water network are either broken (require isolation and replacement), or have leakages (require only reparation). For this battle, six (6) criteria are considered in the problem formulation:

  1. Time that the hospitals (2 per scenario) and the hydrants (2 per scenario) are without supply,
  2. Rapidity of recovery (time until the system recovers permanently 95% of its functionality),
  3. Resilience Loss (accumulated loss of functionality = area under functionality),
  4. Average time each consumer (node) is without service,
  5. Number of consumers (nodes) without service for more than 8 consecutive hours, and
  6. Volume of water lost during the next 7 days after the event

Here functionality is estimated as the sum of all demands of all nodes for a particular solution of a damage scenario in relation to the sum of all demands of the system when no damages have occurred, for each time step.

Solution TEAM Castro-Gama, Quintiliani & Santopietro

The solution proposes the order in which the pipes need to be repaired by 3 different crews, for each of the Damage Scenarios.

Results for 2 different algorithms (A Many Objective Optimization and a Greedy algorithm) and 4 different preventive engineering interventions considered (increasing or decreasing pumping capacity and storage capacity) are presented in the following video together with the Methodology and proposed solution.

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Video – 08:42
Proposal for the Battle of Post-Disaster Response and Rehabilitation (BPDRR)

 

 

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