highest_concentration: Highest concentration risk

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Highest concentration risk

Description

Find the centre coordinates of a circle with a fixed radius that maximizes the coverage of total fire risk insured. 'highest_concentration()' returns the coordinates (lon/lat) and the corresponding concentration. The concentration is defined as the sum of all observations within a circle of a certain radius. See concentration for determining concentration for pre-defined coordinates.

Usage

highest_concentration(
  df,
  value,
  lon = lon,
  lat = lat,
  lowerbound = NULL,
  radius = 200,
  grid_distance = 25,
  gh_precision = 6,
  display_progress = TRUE
)

Arguments

df	data.frame of locations, should at least include column for longitude, latitude and sum insured.
value	column name with value of interest to summarize (e.g. sum insured).
lon	column name with longitude (defaults to 'lon').
lat	column name with latitude (defaults to 'lat').
lowerbound	set lowerbound.
radius	radius (in meters) (default is 200m).
grid_distance	distance (in meters) for precision of concentration risk (default is 25m). 'neighborhood_search()' can be used to search for coordinates with even higher concentrations in the neighborhood of the highest concentrations.
gh_precision	set precision for geohash.
display_progress	show progress bar (TRUE/FALSE). Defaults to TRUE.

Details

A recently European Commission regulation requires insurance companies to determine the maximum value of insured fire risk policies of all buildings that are partly or fully located within circle of a radius of 200m (Commission Delegated Regulation (EU), 2015, Article 132). The problem can be stated as: "find the centre coordinates of a circle with a fixed radius that maximizes the coverage of total fire risk insured". This can be viewed as a particular instance of the Maximal Covering Location Problem (MCLP) with fixed radius. See Gomes (2018) for a solution to the maximum fire risk insured capital problem using a multi-start local search meta-heuristic. The computational performance of highest_concentration() is investigated to overcome the long times the MCLP algorithm is taking. highest_concentration() is written in C++, and for 500,000 buildings it needs about 5-10 seconds to determine the maximum value of insured fire risk policies that are partly or fully located within circle of a radius of 200m.

Value

data.frame with coordinates (lon/lat) with the highest concentrations

Author(s)

Martin Haringa

References

Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) (2015). Solvency II Delegated Act 2015/35. Official Journal of the European Union, 58:124.

Gomes M.I., Afonso L.B., Chibeles-Martins N., Fradinho J.M. (2018). Multi-start Local Search Procedure for the Maximum Fire Risk Insured Capital Problem. In: Lee J., Rinaldi G., Mahjoub A. (eds) Combinatorial Optimization. ISCO 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10856. Springer, Cham. <doi:10.1007/978-3-319-96151-4_19>

Examples

 ## Not run: 
# Find highest concentration with a precision of a grid of 25 meters
hc1 <- highest_concentration(Groningen, amount, radius = 200,
 grid_distance = 25)

# Look for coordinates with even higher concentrations in the
# neighborhood of the coordinates with the highest concentration
hc1_nghb <- neighborhood_gh_search(hc1, max.call = 7000)
print(hc1_nghb)

# Create map with geohashes above the lowerbound
# The highest concentration lies in one of the geohashes
plot(hc1)

# Create map with highest concentration
plot(hc1_nghb)

## End(Not run)

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