A Geographic Optimization Approach to Coast Guard Ship Basing

Abstract

This thesis studies the problem of finding efficient ship base locations, area of operations (AO) among bases, and ship assignments for a coast guard (CG) organization. This problem is faced by many CGs around the world and is motivated by the need to optimize operational outcomes in the face of budget constraints. There is a need for a tool to optimize the placement of the available number of ships to candidate bases and the assignment of the AOs for each base. In this thesis, we developed a model that takes the objective of minimizing the weighted demand for CG services. We also used constraints to have proportionate AOs to the number of ships on each base and partition constraints. To the best of our knowledge, until now, there has yet to be a tool designed for finding both ship allocations and AOs for each base. Therefore, developing this tool is a huge step forward in this area.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2015
Accession Number
ADA632460

Entities

People

  • Mehmet A. Gencay

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Boundaries
  • California
  • Coast Guard
  • Coast Guard Ships
  • Commodities
  • Geographic Regions
  • Information Processing
  • Literature Surveys
  • Numerical Analysis
  • Operations Research
  • Optimization
  • Security
  • Ships
  • Transportation
  • United States
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Maritime Security/Maritime Homeland Security