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 …

The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is one of the most intensively studied combinatorial
optimisation problems for which numerous models and algorithms have been proposed. To …

This paper applies the truck and drone cooperative delivery model to humanitarian logistics
and proposes a multi-objective humanitarian pickup and delivery vehicle routing problem …

In the event of a disaster, the road network is often compromised in terms of its capacity and
usability conditions. This is a challenge for humanitarian operations in the context of …

The emergency disaster response headquarters (HQ) is responsible for incrementally
collecting the disaster information from the whole area of a region. Our previous work …

Natural disasters often cause large-scale destruction and many studies focus on the support
and evacuation of disaster victims. During a disaster, timely provision of relief items, such as …

This paper describes a new simulation-based optimization framework for developing and
assessing relief distribution strategies following a disaster where citizen's relocation is …

This paper proposes improved reactive tabu search for optimal vehicle routing of vehicles
considering allocation of secondary depots in case of natural disasters. In recent years …