Vehicle routing optimisation in humanitarian operations: A survey on modelling and optimisation approaches

WK Anuar, LS Lee, S Pickl, HV Seow - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
The growing field of humanitarian operations is driven by frequent events of disasters seen
in the world today. Within this field, Operations Research (OR) plays a critical role in …

[HTML][HTML] The drone latency location routing problem under uncertainty

ME Bruni, S Khodaparasti, G Perboli - Transportation Research Part C …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper addresses a location routing problem arising in the last-mile drone delivery
context, where drones are used to deliver small packages to a set of customers. Each drone …

A logic-based Benders decomposition method for the multi-trip traveling repairman problem with drones

ME Bruni, S Khodaparasti, M Moshref-Javadi - Computers & Operations …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper considers the problem of delivering a certain number of packages to a set of
customers using multiple drones dispatched from a single truck. Once a drone delivers a …

Humanitarian relief distribution problem: An adjustable robust optimization approach

F Avishan, M Elyasi, İ Yanıkoğlu, A Ekici… - Transportation …, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
Management of humanitarian logistics operations is one of the most critical planning
problems to be addressed immediately after a disaster. The response phase covers the first …

System dynamics approach for food inventory policy assessment in a humanitarian supply chain

N Giedelmann-L, WJ Guerrero… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
In a humanitarian context, disaster relief operations handle in-kind donations and supplies
required to assist the affected population. Among the most challenging operations in …

A column generation algorithm for vehicle scheduling and routing problems

TI Faiz, C Vogiatzis, M Noor-E-Alam - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, we consider a variant of a truckload open vehicle routing problem with time
windows, which is suitable for modeling vehicle routing operations during a humanitarian …

[HTML][HTML] Integrated multi-item packaging and vehicle routing with split delivery problem for fresh agri-product emergency supply at large-scale epidemic disease …

Y Jiang, B Bian, Y Liu - Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Fresh agri-product emergency supply is crucial to secure the basic livelihood of residents at
large-scale epidemic disease context. Considering the massive demand and limited …

Multi-resource scheduling and routing for emergency recovery operations

B Bodaghi, S Shahparvari, M Fadaki, KH Lau… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Efficient delivery of multiple resources for emergency recovery during disasters is a matter of
life and death. Nevertheless, most studies in this field only handle situations involving single …

Robust optimization model of anti-epidemic supply chain under technological innovation: learning from COVID-19

M Song, S Yuan, H Bo, J Song, X Pan, K ** - Annals of Operations …, 2024 - Springer
The anti-epidemic supply chain plays an important role in the prevention and control of the
COVID-19 pandemic. Prior research has focused on studying the facility location, inventory …

Cumulative prospect theory under different types of input data for public health resilience assessment during natural disasters

SS Evangelista, F Maturan, C Wenceslao… - Expert Systems with …, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite the significance of health and the threats natural disasters pose to public health and
the well-being of the affected communities, comprehensive research that explores critical …