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 …

In the last decades, research on emergency traffic management has received high attention
from the operations research community and many pioneer researchers have established it …

A productive research in the emerging field of disaster management plays a quite important
role in relaxing this disastrous advanced society. The planning problem of saving affected …

The challenges in evacuation planning have been vital because of rapid disasters and
limited road capacity. Contraflow strategy is very effective and widely accepted approach for …

Dynamic network flow problems have wide applications in evacuation planning. From a
given subset of arcs in a directed network, choosing the suitable arcs for facility location is …

During disasters, the presence of companion animals is an identified risk for household
relocation failure as well as premature return. In Australia, where bushfires are a regular …

A matheuristic approach based on a reduced two-stage Stochastic Integer Linear
Programming (SILP) model is presented. The proposed approach is suitable for obtaining a …

Reversing the direction of traffic flow in necessary road segments is an important strategy to
optimize the flow, especially, in an emergency evacuation. The configuration may, however …

In this chapter, we consider the problem of efficiently evacuating all people in an urban area
from danger zones to safe zones. This problem, which has attracted major scientific interest …

One of the primary difficulties in operational research is routing multiple distinct commodities
from specific supply sources to the corresponding demand points via the lanes of an …