Models for relief routing: Equity, efficiency and efficacy

M Huang, K Smilowitz, B Balcik - … part E: logistics and transportation review, 2012 - Elsevier
In humanitarian relief operations, vehicle routing and supply allocation decisions are
critically important. Similar routing and allocation decisions are studied for commercial …

A continuous approximation approach for assessment routing in disaster relief

M Huang, KR Smilowitz, B Balcik - Transportation Research Part B …, 2013 - Elsevier
In this paper, we focus on the assessment routing problem which routes teams to different
communities to assess damage and relief needs following a disaster. To address time …

A robust possibilistic programming multi-objective model for locating transfer points and shelters in disaster relief

F Sabouhi, ZS Tavakoli, A Bozorgi-Amiri… - … A: transport science, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, the most critical relief services are considered, including the transportation of
injured people to hospitals, the transportation of evacuees from affected areas to shelters …

Analyzing the volume and nature of emergency medical calls during severe weather events using regression methodologies

LA McLay, EL Boone, JP Brooks - Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2012 - Elsevier
An effective emergency medical service (EMS) response to emergency medical calls during
extreme weather events is a critical public service. Nearly all models for allocating EMS …

Models for relief routing: Equity, efficiency and efficacy

M Huang, K Smilowitz, B Balcik - Procedia-social and behavioral sciences, 2011 - Elsevier
In humanitarian relief operations, vehicle routing and supply allocation decisions are
critically important. Similar routing and allocation decisions are studied for commercial …

A harmony search approach for the selective pick-up and delivery problem with delayed drop-off

J Del Ser, MN Bilbao, C Perfecto… - … Algorithm: Proceedings of …, 2016 - Springer
In the last years freight transportation has undergone a sharp increase in the scales of its
underlying processes and protocols mainly due to the ever-growing community of users and …

[LIBRO][B] Delivery of critical items in a disaster relief operation: centralized and distributed supply strategies

YH Lin - 2010 - search.proquest.com
Practically, one of the most critical tasks after a nature catastrophe is to organize and
execute humanitarian relief operations effectively and efficiently. The humanitarian relief …

Predicting and Optimizing the Fair Allocation of Donations

IA Nuamah - 2016 - search.proquest.com
Non-profit hunger relief organizations (NPHROs) are committed to alleviating hunger around
the world and depend mainly on the benevolence of donors to achieve their goals. The …

A Multi-criteria Decision-Making Framework for the Design of the Relief Distribution Routes

F Regis-Hernández, A Ruiz, J Mora-Vargas - Humanitarian Logistics from …, 2022 - Springer
In the aftermath of a natural disaster, humanitarian aid must be delivered as fast as possible
to the affected population to alleviate human suffering and minimize deaths. To this end …

[PDF][PDF] Resource allocation problems under uncertainty in humanitarian supply chains.

M Celik - 2014 - core.ac.uk
Over the recent years, natural and man-made disasters have continued to impact the
humanity. Recent examples include Typhoon Haiyan (2013), which affected the Philippines …