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European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 229, Issue 1, 16 August 2013, Pages 261-275.
Ali Edrissi, Hossain Poorzahedy, Habibollah Nassiri, Mehdi Nourinejad.
Civil Engineering Department, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, No. 1346, Vali Asr. Street, Mirdamad Intersection, 19697 Tehran, Iran
Civil Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, P.O. Box 11365-9313, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
Natural earthquake disasters are unprecedented incidents which take many lives as a consequence and cause major damages to lifeline infrastructures. Various agencies in a country are responsible for reducing such adverse impacts within specific budgets. These responsibilities range from before to after the incident, targeting one of the main phases of disaster management (mitigation, preparedness, and response). Use of OR in disaster management and coordination of its phases has been mostly ignored and highly recommended in former reviews. This paper presents a formulation to coordinate three main agencies and proposes a heuristic approach to solve the different introduced sub-problems. The results show an improvement of 7.5–24% when the agencies are coordinated.