A disaster plan is incomplete without a route plan.
Route plans prepared before a disaster for relief distribution, debris removal and mobile service vehicles. When closed roads are entered during the event, the plan is regenerated in minutes. We make no off-the-shelf promise here; we build the plan together and rehearse it in drills.
Three streets closed: old plan invalidClosed streets avoided, priority points first
Regulation asks for a plan before the disaster; the plan is usually just an inventory list.
The Municipal Law gives municipalities the duty to prepare disaster plans and to keep crews and equipment ready. The excavation and demolition waste regulation asks the crisis centre to determine, before a disaster, the expected waste volume, the vehicles and equipment for removal, and the dumping sites. The disaster response regulation requires relief warehouses, soup kitchens, garages and debris dumping sites to be entered into the national system with coordinates. The data is geographic; what is missing is the route plan that connects these points.
The earthquakes of 6 February 2023 showed the scale: two months on, more than eight hundred trucks a day were hauling debris in a single province; close to ninety temporary dumping sites were defined in ten provinces; reopening damaged roads took four days. Debris removal is a collection operation from many points to capacity-limited dumping sites with capacity-limited vehicles; it has the same structure as solid waste planning, except that the road network changes every day.
- Debris trucks per day in one province (April 2023)
- 806
- Trips made in two months in the same province
- 263,000
- Temporary dumping sites defined in ten provinces
- ~91
Sources: the Directorate General of Environmental Management's March 2023 presentation to Parliament; a provincial governorship statement of April 2023; the Ministry of Transport's road damage statement. The figures show the scale of the operation; Akılkent had no role in it.
What does a disaster route take into account?
| Rule | What it means |
|---|---|
| Closed and damaged roads | Closed streets are removed from the network; the plan is regenerated on what remains. |
| Dumping site capacity | The capacity and distance of each temporary dumping site; a full site drops out of the plan. |
| Vehicle capacity and trip time | Truck and excavator pairing, maximum trip time, fleet size. |
| Priority points | Hospitals, assembly areas and temporary shelters first; the priority level is set per point. |
| Assembly and shelter areas | The coordinates in the disaster plan become distribution points directly. |
| Fuel resupply | Crews run on their own fuel for the first 72 hours; resupply points are in the plan. |
| Distribution under scarcity | When relief supplies fall short of demand, the distribution rule is agreed together before planning. |
The rules are compiled from disaster response legislation and from the literature on debris collection and relief distribution.
How we work
Before the disaster: scenario routes
Scenario-based route plans are prepared from the vehicle inventory, assembly and shelter areas, relief warehouses and dumping sites.
Drill
The plans are tested in the field during the annual drill; times are measured and the plan corrected.
During the disaster
Closed roads and full sites are entered; the plan is regenerated in minutes and sent to the driver screen.
Getting started
Akılkent's route solver was validated with real data in municipal solid waste operations; the same core runs with this sector's rules. The constraints above are defined for your operation in the first conversation and computed with your own data in the free pre-analysis. We make no off-the-shelf promise in disaster logistics: we build the scenario routes together and rehearse them in drills.
See it with your own data
With your vehicle list and point locations we compute the savings potential of your operation and review the result together. A request is not a purchase commitment.
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