Humanitarian logistics and emergency relief management: hot perspectives and its optimization approach

Robust Optimization for Emergency Logistics Planning: Risk Mitigation in Humanitarian Relief Supply Chains

Aharon Ben-Tal Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, MINERVA Optimization Center, Technion Israel Institute of Technology Technion City, Haifa 32000, Israel, [email protected] Byung Do Chung, Supreet Reddy Mandala, Tao Yao The Harold & Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 {[email protected],...

An optimization model for humanitarian relief volunteer management

One of the challenges of humanitarian organizations is that there exist limited decision technologies that fit their needs. It has also been pointed out that those organizations experience coordination difficulties with volunteers willing to help. The purpose of this paper is to help address those challenges through the development of a decision model to assist in the management of volunteers. ...

Decentralized Approaches to Logistics Coordination in Humanitarian Relief

Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) involved in humanitarian relief provide supplies and services to people in need. Transportation and logistics are big parts of NGO operations, as agencies transport and distribute supplies to and within the affected regions. Improving efficiency of their logistics systems has potential to significantly decrease agencies’ operational costs and expand their se...

Quantitative and Qualitative Perspectives on Gender in Humanitarian Logistics

A Robust Programming Approach to Bi-objective Optimization Model in the Disaster Relief Logistics Response Phase

Accidents and natural disasters and crises coming out of them indicate the importance of an integrated planning to reduce their effected. Therefore, disaster relief logistics is one of the main activities in disaster management. In this paper, we study the response phase of the disaster management cycle and a bi-objective model has been developed for relief chain logistic in uncertainty conditi...