Refueling Station Location Model to Support Evacuation of Alternative Fuel Vehicles

Alternative fuel vehicles may pose challenges to evacuation planning because of their short driving range and the sparse refueling infrastructure existing on transportation networks. Deployment strategic siting emergency stations are needed support alternative reach a shelter. This study proposes location-routing problem with hop constraints that optimize placement each type routing. We develop Benders-inspired decomposition method transformed network solve location matheuristic branch-and-price design routes minimize travel time satisfy vehicle type. Our numerical experiments, focusing South Florida network, uncover impacts specifications heterogeneity deployment plan.