Reliable Infrastructure Location Design under
Interdependent Disruptions
Xiaopeng Li, Ph.D.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Mississippi State University
Joint work with
Yanfeng Ouyang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fan Peng, CSX Transportation
The 20th International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory
Noordwijk, Netherlands, July 17, 2013
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Outline
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Background
Infrastructure network design
Facility disruptions
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Mathematical Model
Formulation challenges
Modeling approach
•
Numerical Examples
Solution quality
Case studies
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Logistics Infrastructure Network
Facilities are to be built to serve spatially distributed customers
Trade-off
one-time facility investment
day-to-day transportation costs
Optimal locations of facilities?
Customer
…
Facility
Transp.
cost
Facility
cost
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Infrastructure Facility Disruptions
Facilities may be disrupted
due to
Natural disasters
Power outages
Strikes…
Adverse impacts
Excessive operational cost
Reduced service quality
Deteriorate customer
satisfaction…
Effects on facility planning
Suboptimal system design
Erroneous budget estimation
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Impacts of Facility Disruptions
Excessive operations cost (including travel & penalty)
Visit the closest functioning facility within a reachable distance
If all facilities within the penalty distance fail, the customer will receive a
penalty cost
Reliable design?
Facility cost
Reachable Distance
Operations Cost
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Literature Review
Traditional models
Deterministic models (Daskin, 1995; Drezner, 1995)
Demand uncertainty (Daskin, 1982, 1983; Ball and Lin, 1993; Revelle and
Hogan, 1989; Batta et al., 1989)
Continuum approximation (Newell 1973; Daganzo and Newell, 1986;
Langevin et al.,1996; Ouyang and Daganzo, 2006)
Reliable models
I.i.d. failures (Snyder and Daskin, 2005; Chen et al., 2011; An et al.,2012)
Site-dependent (yet independent) failures (Cui et al., 2010;)
Special correlated failures (Li and Ouyang 2010, Liberatore et al. 2012)
Most reliable location studies assume disruptions are independent
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Disruption Correlation
Many systems exhibit positively correlated disruptions
Shared disaster hazards
Shared supply resources
Power Plant
Factories
Northeast Blackout (2003)
Hurricane Sandy (2012)
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Prominent Example: Fukushima Nuclear Leak
Earthquake
→ Power supply failure
→ Reactors meltdown
Power supply
for cooling systems
Reactors
(Sources: ibtimes.com; www.pmf.kg.ac.rs/radijacionafizika)
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Research Questions
How to model interdependent disruptions in a simple way?
How to design reliable facility network under correlated
disruptions?
minimize system cost in the normal scenario
hedge against high costs across all interdependent disruption scenarios
Initial
investment
Operations
cost
normal scenario
Operations
cost
correlated
disruption scenarios
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Outline
•
Background
Infrastructure network design
Facility disruptions
•
Mathematical Model
Formulation challenges
Modeling approach
•
Numerical Examples
Solution quality
Case studies
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Probabilistic Facility Disruptions
A facility is either disrupted or functioning
Disruption probability = long-term fraction of time when the
facility is in the disrupted state
Facility state combination specifies a scenario
Facility 1
Facility 2
Facility 3
Normal
scenario
Scenario
1
Disrupted state
Normal
scenario
Scenario
2
Scenario
3
Normal
scenario
Functioning state
time
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Modeling Challenges
Deterministic facility location problem is NP-hard
Even for given location design, # of failure scenarios
increases exponential with # of facilities
Difficult to consolidate scenarios under correlation
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Scenario 2
…
Scenario N+1
…
Scenario 2N
…
…
Scenario 1
…
Disrupted
Functioning
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Correlation Representation:
Supporting Structure
Each supporting station is disrupted independently with an
identical probability (i.i.d. disruptions)
A service facility is operational if and only if at least one of its
supporting stations is functioning
Supporting Stations:
…
Service Facilities:
…
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Supporting Structure Properties
Proposition: Site-dependent facility disruptions(Cui et al.,
2010) can be represented by a properly constructed
supporting structure
Idea: # of stations connected to a facility determines
disruption probability
…
…
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Supporting Structure Properties
Proposition: General positively-correlated facility disruptions
can be represented by a properly constructed supporting
structure.
Structure construction formula:
i 1
p (uN ' )
QL , N ' N
i 0
L N \ N ', L N \ N ' i
N'
A
B
C
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System Performance - Expected Cost
Supporting stations K:
k: cons. cost ck
(i.i.d. failure probability p)
j: cons. cost fj
Service facilities J:
i: demand – li; penalty pi
Customers I:
All scenarios S = {s}; each scenario s occurs at probability Ps
In s, i is assigned to js ; js ∈ J (functioning facility), or js = 0, di0 := pi (penalty)
Expected total system cost:
𝑘∈𝐾 𝑐𝑘
Construction cost
+
𝑗∈𝐽 𝑓𝑗
+
𝑠∈𝑆 𝑃𝑠
𝑖∈𝐼 𝜆𝑖
𝑑𝑖𝑗𝑠
Expected operations cost
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Expected System Cost Evaluation
Consolidated cost formula
r 1
R
l
(1
p
)
p
min
{
p
,
d
,
j
J
}
lp
p
iI r 1 i
iI i i
i
ij
k
R
Scenario consolidation principles
Separate each individual customer
Rank infrastructure units according to a customer’s visiting sequence
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Reliable Facility Location Model
R
min f j X j ck Yk li p
X ,Y ,Z
jJ
kK
iI r 1
r 1
(1 p ) dij Z ijkr p i Z i 0 r
kK jJ k
subject to
Z
kK jJ k
ijkr
Zi 0 r 1, i I , r 1, 2,
Expected system cost
,R
Zijkr X j , i I , j J , k K j , r 1, 2,
R
Z
jJ k r 1
ijkr
Assignment feasibility
,R
Facility existence
Yk , i I , k K
Zijkr , Z i 0 r {0,1}, i I , j J , k K j , r 1, 2,
Station existence
, R;
X j , Yk , {0,1}, j J , k K .
Compact Linear Integer Program
Integrality
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Outline
•
Background
Infrastructure network design
Facility disruptions
•
Mathematical Model
Formulation challenges
Modeling approach
•
Numerical Examples
Solution quality
Case studies
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Hypothetical Example
Supporting stations are given
Identical network setting except for # of shared stations
Identical facility disruption probabilities
Case 1: Correlated disruptions
Neighboring facilities share stations
…
Case 2: Independent disruptions (not sharing stations)
Each facility is supported by an isolated station
…
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Comparison Result
Case 1: Correlated disruptions
Facility disruption
probability
0
0.3
0.6
0.9
Facility
construction
Transportation Penalty
cost
cost
cost
1800
3000
0
1800
3264
4
3000
3722
653
3000
6849 56485
Facility locations
j3 j6 j9
j3 j6 j9
j2 j4 j6 j8 j10
j2 j4 j6 j8 j10
Total
cost
4800
5068
7375
66335
Case 2: Independent disruptions
Facility disruption
probability
0
0.3
0.6
0.9
Facility locations
j3 j6 j9
j3 j5 j8 j9
j2 j3 j5 j6 j8 j10
j2 j3 j4 j5 j6 j7 j8 j9 j10
Facility
Transportation
construction cost
cost
1800
3000
2400
2656
3600
2586
5400
6680
Penalty
cost
0
0.01
18
10467
Total
cost
4800
5055
6204
22547
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Case Study
Candidate stations: 65 nuclear power plants
Candidate facilities and customers: 48 state capital cities & D.C.
Data sources: US major city demographic data from Daskin, 1995
eGRID http://www.epa.gov/cleanenergy/energy-resources/egrid/index.html
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Optimal Deployment
Supporting station:
Service facility:
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Summary
Supporting station structure
Site-dependent disruptions
Positively correlated disruptions
Scenario consolidation
Exponential scenarios → polynomial measure
Integer programming design model
Solved efficiently with state-of-the-art solvers
Future research
More general correlation patterns (negative correlations)
Application to real-world case studies
Algorithm improvement
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Acknowledgment
U.S. National Science Foundation
CMMI #1234936
CMMI #1234085
EFRI-RESIN #0835982
CMMI #0748067
Thank You!
Xiaopeng Li
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