'Contactless' distribution plays an important role in emergency supplies transportation, and the trajectory tracking control of transport robots is key technology to achieving 'contactless' precision. In this paper, a method for was proposed based on fuzzy MPC. Firstly, kinematic model established, motion parameters were identified by recursive least square algorithm. Secondly, aiming at veloci...

Objective – The research objective of this paper is to establish an efficient awareness model emergency supplies dispatching for tropical cyclone disasters, so as timely deliver each disaster area at the lowest cost. Methodology/Technique Taking caused by super typhoon No.1409 "Rammasun" cities and counties in Guangxi example, 24 (districts) belonging 7 prefecture-level with more than 1000 peop...

Purpose – Terrorist attacks, natural disasters, and regional power outages from the past several years have all highlighted the low levels of disaster preparedness that exist at many firms. Supply chain disruptions caused by external events can have a significant financial and operational impact on firms not properly prepared. Therefore, improving disaster preparedness in supply chains is criti...

Emergency logistics routing problem, which is premise with the time requirements for emergency logistics and aims at maximum saving delivery time for relief supplies, is a reasonable arrangement of vehicles to run routes. According to the characteristics of time which emergency logistics emphasis on, the delivery route optimization model which the number of delivery vehicles less than demand ar...

Forced to step in and set up emergency clinics as hospitals fight legal battles for access critical supplies, many Indian doctors are turning activism, write Geetanjali Krishna Sally Howard

In 2020, COVID-19 swept across the globe. To reduce social harms caused by this public health event, nonprofit organizations (NPOs) cooperated with medical enterprises to produce reserves of emergency supplies. practice, cooperation was challenged different goals NPOs and asymmetry information between these parties. Enterprises are prone irregularities or speculative behaviors that can result i...