Urban Transportation and Logistics

240 Sideney A. Schreiner, Jr.

and capacity are modied by multipliers representing the damage and

the gradual recovery during reconstruction stages. The weight w

ij

can

represent the number of daily trips as well as the economic value or the

tonnage transported between nodes i and j.

The time required for reconstruction can be incorporated into the

analysis using a stage-based reconstruction process, which is usually

true for most real-life construction events. Therefore, network capacity

is reestablished in cumulative discrete steps as selected damaged roads

are rebuilt in each stage. At the end of each stage, those roads are back

to predisaster ...