Research Article

Prioritization of Bridges to Improve Emergency Road Network Performance after the Earthquake

Table 1

Notations.

Sets

SSet of all possible combinations of bridge failure states, sS
ASet of all links of the transportation network, aA
KSet of all points, kK
BSet of all bridges, bB
RSet of all routes, r R
ODSet of all demand pairs (origins and destinations), od OD
Parameters
A large enough positive number
TrTravel time of path r
TTDesired total travel time for a certain network
TTTTotal travel time for a certain network
laLength of link a
Importance of route r
KaPostdisaster capacity of link a
Number of required routes between an origin (O) and destination (D)
Amount of demand between the o and d, which crosses from route r
Minimum coverage level
rCThe available allocable budget for retrofitting
Retrofitting cost of bridge b
Predicted probability of the survival of bridge b before retrofitting
Estimated probability of survival of bridge b after retrofitting
Variables
1 if link a is used, and 0 otherwise
1 if path r is used between origin O and destination D, and 0 otherwise
1 if point k with type O is covered, and 0 otherwise
1 if link a is part of path r, and 0 otherwise
1 if point k is covered with link a, and 0 otherwise
1 if bridge b in the state s is nonfunctional, and 0 otherwise