Transportation and location planning during epidemics/pandemics: Emerging problems and solution approaches

M Karatas, L Erişkin, E Bozkaya - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The sudden changes in human mobility, the immense increase in demand for logistics and
delivery systems, governmental restrictions, and uncertainty of the spread dynamics have …

[HTML][HTML] Vehicle routing optimization for pandemic containment: a systematic review on applications and solution approaches

K Lin, SN Musa, HJ Yap - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The global spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has accounted for many deaths. The
effective containment of the current COVID-19 epidemic calls for a fast and sustainable …

Co-evolutionary location-routing model of medical isolation areas for major public health emergencies considering the uncertainty of future traffic environment

J Wu, J He, Y Lin, Y Bie - Transportation Research Record, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
With the continuous development of the COVID-19 pandemic, the selection of locations for
medical isolation areas has not always been optimal for the timely transportation of infected …

[HTML][HTML] Travel route planning method to avoid epidemic hot-spots in the post-epidemic era

R Wang, Y Luo, Y Zou, S Liu - Transportation Research Interdisciplinary …, 2023 - Elsevier
The Chinese government adhered to the “dynamic clearance” epidemic prevention strategy
from August 2021 to December 7, 2022, during the post-epidemic era (this study started in …

Infectious waste management during a pandemic: A stochastic location-routing problem with chance-constrained time windows

ST Hassanpour, GY Ke, J Zhao, DM Tulett - Computers & Industrial …, 2023 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented tremendous challenges to the world, one of which
is the management of infectious waste generated by healthcare activities. Finding cost …

Health care logistics network design and analysis on pandemic outbreaks: Insights from COVID-19

Z Cetinkale, N Aydin - Transportation Research Record, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Health care systems throughout the world are under pressure as a result of COVID-19. It is
over two years since the first case was announced in China and health care providers are …

Transportation and a Pandemic: A Case Study of COVID-19 Pandemic

Y Ali, A Sharma, MM Haque - Integrated Risk of Pandemic: Covid-19 …, 2020 - Springer
People use various modes for travelling and interact with each other during their trips for
business, shopping, education and tourism. The travel increases the risk of spreading …

[HTML][HTML] Application-based COVID-19 micro-mobility solution for safe and smart navigation in pandemics

S Mishra, N Singh, D Bhattacharya - ISPRS International Journal of Geo …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Short distance travel and commute being inevitable, safe route planning in pandemics for
micro-mobility, ie, cycling and walking, is extremely important for the safety of oneself and …

Design of multimodal hub-and-spoke transportation network for emergency relief under COVID-19 pandemic: A meta-heuristic approach

C Li, P Han, M Zhou, M Gu - Applied Soft Computing, 2023 - Elsevier
When COVID-19 suddenly broke out, the epidemic areas are short of basic emergency relief
which need to be transported from surrounding areas. To make transportation both time …

Sustainable fuzzy multi-trip location-routing problem for medical waste management during the COVID-19 outbreak

EB Tirkolaee, P Abbasian, GW Weber - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
The performance of waste management system has been recently interrupted and
encountered a very serious situation due to the epidemic outbreak of the novel Coronavirus …