Evaluation of logistics system with small ships under disaster situations

In recent years, the massive earthquakes occurred frequently in Japan and brought the large-scale disasters such as the great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake in 1997, the Niigata Prefecture Chuetsu earthquake in 2004, the great east Japan earthquake in 2011, and the Kumamoto earthquake in 2016. In the all disasters above, logistics system for relief supply collapsed and it is repeated that the supply goods are not delivered to the evacuation refugees properly. One of the reasons repeating this situation is caused by street network damaged. If ships can be utilized as an alterable transportation mode, the logistics system under disaster situation will have more robustness. In this paper, using transportation simulator for disaster situation based on the Multi-Agent System, the performance of logistics system using small ships in disaster situations is evaluated.