RT Journal Article
T1 Assignment Problems in Wildfire Suppression: Models for Optimization of Aerial Resource Logistics
A1 Rodríguez Veiga, Jorge
A1 Gómez Costa, Iván
A1 Ginzo Villamayor, María José
A1 Casas Méndez, Balbina
A1 Sáiz Díaz, José Luis
K1 Wildfire management
K1 Aerial resources assignment
K1 Flight routes
K1 Refueling
K1 Points
K1 Integer linear programming
AB Wildfire containment activities involve a combination of important decisions that affect the evolution of the fire and effective resource deployment. When aerial resources (in particular aircraft and helicopters) are used, two tasks are assigned to the aerial coordinator: the allocation of aerial resources to flight routes (circular paths that aerial resources follow such that they have common loading and discharge points) and refueling points. In this paper, we introduce two models of linear integer programming to execute these tasks. The models are written using AMPL and the Gurobi solver engine and illustrated through examples. The objective of these models is to provide automatic and rapid support for the coordination of the abovementioned tasks. In order to enhance the robustness of the models, the scheduling times and the characteristics of the aerial resources are also considered. These models aim at minimizing both the containment time of the fire and the total flight hours. The models will reduce the risk of aerial collision of resources by taking into account the maximum number of aerial resources that can simultaneously load water at the same point. Moreover, management of refueling points is also achieved
PB Oxford University Press
SN 0015-749X
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/18646
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/18646
LA eng
NO Rodríguez-Veiga, J., Gómez-Costa, I., Ginzo-Villamayor, M., Casas-Méndez, B., & Sáiz-Díaz, J. (2018). Assignment Problems in Wildfire Suppression: Models for Optimization of Aerial Resource Logistics. Forest Science, 64(5), 504-514. doi: 10.1093/forsci/fxy012
NO This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Forest Science following peer review. The version of record Rodríguez-Veiga, J., Gómez-Costa, I., Ginzo-Villamayor, M., Casas-Méndez, B., & Sáiz-Díaz, J. (2018). Assignment Problems in Wildfire Suppression: Models for Optimization of Aerial Resource Logistics. Forest Science, 64(5), 504-514 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/forsci/fxy012
NO This research received financial support from the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad of Spain through grant MTM2014-53395-C3-2-P, MTM2016-76969-P, MTM2017-87197-C3-3-P, and from ITMATI, Technological Institute of Industrial Mathematics, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, through the Enjambre project
DS Minerva
RD 1 may 2026