A strategic, area-wide contingency planning model for oil spill cleanup operations with application demonstrated to the Galveston Bay Area

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dc.contributor.authorWilhelm WEen_US
dc.contributor.authorSrinivasa AVen_US
dc.contributor.otherDecision Sciencesen_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-02-15T17:17:23Z
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dc.date.issued1996 FALen_US
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dc.description.abstractThis paper develops a general integer programming model for strategic, area-wide contingency planning of oil spill cleanup operations. Model inputs include the set of risk points and the likely spill scenarios and response requirements for each, the sites of existing storage locations and the inventory of components at each, and potential sites for new storage locations. The model prescribes a minimum total cost plan to either build new storage locations, expand existing ones, or both, to purchase new components and pre-position them, and a contingency plan that determines which response systems should be composed to enable an effective time-phased response for each likely spill scenario. A family of heuristics based on linear programming (LP) is devised to resolve this strategic problem, providing an area-wide contingency plan. The heuristics are evaluated on a set of 10 test problems that involve 1869 general integer variables and 3264 constraints. Computational tests indicate that four heuristics are quite effective, prescribing solutions for each of 10 test cases within 1.41% of optimum and within a few minutes runtime. This study focused on modeling the Galveston Bay Area, and the test problems represent application in that area. A sensitivity analysis is demonstrated by assessing the impacts of component availability and the degradation of cleanup capability over time. Use of the model as a decision support aid by responsible parties, contractors, governmental organizations and others is describeden_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1969.3/23484
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dc.notesTimes Cited: 0ArticleEnglishWilhelm, W. ETEXAS A&M UNIV,DEPT IND ENGN,COLLEGE STN,TX 77843Cited References Count: 25YB481COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMN, UNIVERSITY PLAZA, ATLANTA, GA 30303ATLANTAen_US
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dc.subjectOil spill, contingency planningen_US
dc.titleA strategic, area-wide contingency planning model for oil spill cleanup operations with application demonstrated to the Galveston Bay Areaen_US
dc.typeJournalen_US
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dc.vol-issue27(4)en_US

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