Bi-objective allocation model for flood relief centre

• Published in: Journal of Infrastructure, Policy and Development
• Main Author: Radiah Shariff S.S.; Hashim N.M.; Deni S.M.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: EnPress Publisher, LLC 2024
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85202868337&doi=10.24294%2fjipd.v8i8.4418&partnerID=40&md5=5e2030999cda2142019437c0fd4de10c

Floods have always been an unavoidable natural disaster globally. Due to that, many efforts have been taken in order to alleviate the effect, especially in protecting the victims from losing their lives as well as their belongings. This study focuses on ensuring a smooth allocation process for flood victims to the relief centres considering the nature of their location, near the river, inland, and coastal. The finding indicated that a few implications have been highlighted for disaster management, such as changes in flood victim allocation patterns, classification of prone areas based on three areas, identification of most disaster areas, and others. Thus, to enhance the efficiency of allocation and to avoid any bad incidents happening during the flood occurrence, the allocation of flood victims is proposed to be started at a more critical area like the river area and followed by other areas. The finding also indicated that the proposed allocation procedure yielded a slightly lower average travel distance than the existing practice. These findings could also provide valuable information for disaster management in implementing a more efficient allocation procedure during a disaster. © 2024 by author(s).