Research on Coordinated Dispatching of Emergency Materials in the Initial Stage of Outburst Epidemic with the Coupling of Regional Mutual Rescue and External Rescue
Outburst and unconventional epidemic represented by COVID-19 will quickly spread to the surround-ing areas after outbreaking,and these areas formed the epidemic core areas,each area has a high shortage of emergency supplies.Since it takes a relatively long time to collect,transport and distribute emergency materials from external areas to the epidemic core area,if each epidemic core area is only"responsible for its own epidemic prevention"before the arrival of external rescue materials,and the mobility of the population will have a related impact on the epidemic situation in each epidemic area,thus aggravating the spread of the epidemic situation.Compared with"responsible for its own epidemic prevention","mutual help"among epidemic core areas is more conducive to the prevention and control of the early stage of the epidemic.Therefore,it focuses on the problem of coordination scheduling of emergency materials based on the combination of"mutual help"among the epidemic core areas and external areas rescue in this study.An improved SVEIR model is first designed to finely describe the epidemic spread process according to the analysis of the law of epidemic's spread-ing.On this basis,a collaborative optimization model of emergency materials is constructed considering the coupling scenario of epidemic dynamic evolution,government response decision and material scheduling.And then,an adaptive large neighborhood search algorithm is designed to solve the model with the analysis of the characteristics of the problem.A case study of COVID-19 in 11 cities of Hubei province is finally presented to promote the model validation analysis.Stimulation result shows that the"mutual rescue"among the epidemic core areas is coupling with external areas rescue,and the proposed collaborative rescue model is helpful to significantly improve the effect of epidemic prevention and control.Meanwhile,based on the sensitivity analysis of key parameters,some research findings are obtained:(1)The effect of epidemic prevention is positively cor-related with the speed of government response;(2)The effect of epidemic prevention is positively correlated with the virus transmission,the stronger of the virus transmission,the more obvious the"mutual rescue"of epidemic core areas;(3)The effect of epidemic prevention is positively correlated with the distribution efficiency of core epidemic areas,the higher the distribution efficiency,the better the epidemic prevention effect;(4)The appropriate movement of personnel is helpful to promote the overall prevention and control of the epidemic.There is a theoretical optimal patient population flow between core epidemic areas to achieve the optimal effect of epidemic prevention.The above findings provide useful suggestions and decision support for the prevention and control of public health emergencies.
outburst and unconventional epidemicmaterial distributionregional mutual-rescuecoordination scheduling