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Disaster relief routing: Integrating research and practice
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In this article, the authors provide an analysis of the use of such models from the perspective of both practitioners and academics in the distribution of life-saving commodities to the recipients of disaster relief.Abstract:
Disaster relief presents many unique logistics challenges, with problems including damaged trans- portation infrastructure, limited communication, and coordination of multiple agents. Central to disaster relief logistics is the distribution of life-saving commodities to beneficiaries. Operations research models have potential to help relief agencies save lives and money, maintain standards of humanitarianism and fairness and maximize the use of limited resources amid post-disaster chaos. Through interviews with aid organizations, reviews of their publications, and a literature review of operations research models in transportation of relief goods, this paper provides an analysis of the use of such models from the perspective of both practitioners and academics. With the complexity of disaster relief distribution and the relatively small number of journal articles written on it, this is an area with potential for helping relief organizations and for tremendous growth in operations research.read more
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Nezih Altay,Walter G. Green +1 more
TL;DR: The literature is surveyed to identify potential research directions in disaster operations, discuss relevant issues, and provide a starting point for interested researchers.
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Gyöngyi Kovács,Karen Spens +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a framework for planning and carrying out logistics operations in disaster relief is presented, which distinguishes between actors, phases, and logistical processes of disaster relief, while recognizing the need of humanitarian logistics to learn from business logistics.
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Emergency Logistics Planning in Natural Disasters
TL;DR: A planning model that is to be integrated into a natural disaster logistics Decision Support System is developed that addresses the dynamic time-dependent transportation problem that needs to be solved repetitively at given time intervals during ongoing aid delivery.
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A two-stage stochastic programming framework for transportation planning in disaster response
Gülay Barbarosoğlu,Yasemin Arda +1 more
TL;DR: This study proposes a two-stage stochastic programming model to plan the transportation of vital first-aid commodities to disaster-affected areas during emergency response, and a multi-commodity, multi-modal network flow formulation is developed to describe the flow of material over an urban transportation network.
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A dynamic logistics coordination model for evacuation and support in disaster response activities
Wei Yi,Linet Özdamar +1 more
TL;DR: The proposed model is a mixed integer multi-commodity network flow model that treats vehicles as integer commodity flows rather than binary variables that results in a more compact formulation whose output is processed to extract a detailed vehicle route and load instruction sheet.