Disaster management refers to those tasks related to assessing the risks and mitigating
the impacts of catastrophic events on transportation networks. In this context, disaster
management involves a chain of activities, ranging from performance evaluation and predisaster improvement of network resilience to post-disaster response, recovery and reconstruction [40]. These activities are inevitably characterized by uncertainty, a result of the unforeseeable characteristics of disasters and their impacts on infrastructures and human activities. These facts alone imply that planning for disasters is a multi-aspect, stochastic process, targeting at different phases, before, during and following a catastrophe. The difficulties arising in this context have also been of interest to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) which as [58] note “…recognizes the unique challenges posed by the disaster environment on mobility and the safe and secure movement of people and goods”. In the same study, [58] accentuate the importance of the transportation network’s availability and capacity in emergency response and evacuation operations. Indeed, post-disaster conditions in a transportation network remain uncertain, while the disaster’s aftermath depends on the serviceability of the “surviving” network and its capacity to support evacuation, emergency response, relief and recovery operations. In that sense, efficient tools for planning and managing post-disaster transportation network operations are of significant practical importance.