An earthquake emergency materials dispatching method based on WSPT rule

Abstract

In order to ensure the emergency resources arrived in the disaster area in time and reduce the rescue losses by resources dispatching, when quantity of available vehicles is limited in, a single point to a single point emergency problem is considered to solve the priority scheduling problem about kinds of materials in same place. After classifying the emergency materials, analytic hierarchy process (AHP) approach is employed to get weight of materials, then the dispatch order for materials is calculated based on weighted shortest processing time first (WSPT) rule and results is given by LEKIN, furthermore it supplies a reference method for earthquake emergency material dispatching. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.