As a humanity crisis, the tragedy of forced displacement entails relief aid distribution efforts among en route refugees to alleviate their migration hardships. This study aims to assist …
KS Shehadeh - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on improving equity in a well-known stochastic facility location problem (FLP). Specifically, given sets of potential facility locations and customers with random …
Drone-supported last-mile humanitarian logistics applications play a crucial role in the rapid and efficient delivery of essential relief items, such as medicine, blood, and vaccines, during …
MS Hackathon - arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.08999, 2023 - arxiv.org
The devastating 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Al Haouz, Morocco in 2023 prompted critical reflections on global disaster management strategies, resulting in a post-disaster hackathon …
F Yin, Y Zhao, D Wang, G Hu - Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper studies a variant of the two-stage last mile relief network problem by introducing a centrality metric objective including the distance centrality metric, the demand centrality …
L Chen - Managerial and Decision Economics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Given the significance of objective functions in alleviating human suffering within the humanitarian relief supply chain, it is imperative to consider both logistics costs and the cost …
South Carolina is one of the most vulnerable states in the United States to the impact of hurricanes. Currently, when threatened with a natural disaster such as a hurricane, the state …