Proactive planning and optimizing international express resilience strategies

• Main Authors: Tseng, Te-pei, 曾德沛
• Other Authors: 馮正民
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/77612261612900754396

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 運輸與物流管理學系 === 101 === Recently natural disasters and manmade disruptions usually cause significant losses in international express industries, such as the Iceland volcano eruption on 2011, the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan and the Bangkok flooding event in Thailand on 2012, and the German air traffic controllers strike on 2013. In order to reduce the serious impacts of these major disruption events, some proactive resilience strategies are developed in this study. Some research questions are answered in this study: (1) How to define and identify the type of disruption events and impact area? (2) How to quantify and optimize the resilience strategies for different disruption events? (3) How to develop and distinguish the long-term and short-term resilience strategies? (4) To what extent, could we evaluate and measure the investment and corresponding effects of resilience strategies (in terms of money)? A multi-objective mixed integer nonlinear programming problem is developed for analyzing the tradeoff between the maximization of the product of the throughputs of shipping cargos and their corresponding time dependent value and the minimization of incremental costs of applying resilience strategies. The numerical results are also linked with real flooding event occurred in Thailand on 2012. Keywords: Resilience Strategy, Disruption Management, Multi-Objective Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming Problem.