Ambush avoidance in vehicle routing for valuable delivery

Salani, Matteo and Duyckaerts, Gaëtan and Swartz, Peter Goodings (2010) Ambush avoidance in vehicle routing for valuable delivery. Journal of Transportation Security, 3 (1). pp. 41-55. ISSN 1938-7741

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Abstract

Optimal route planning under threat of ambush is essential for any vehicle carrying valuable persons or objects. Our paper proposes a planning method for such a vehicle in an urban environment where, starting from a depot, a set of predetermined destinations must be served. We develop a previously existent flow-based single-destination model, proposing a method for minimizing attacker payoff in the multi-destination case. Our method requires specification of destination ordering, and we propose a method for mixing of these possible orders. Such mixing further reduces attacker payoff. We then apply the method to a set of possible scenarios based on Cambridge, Massachusetts, and analyze the benefits of our mixed ordering strategy. Finally, we introduce a second-level optimization model which again reduces the overall risk of successful ambush.

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