Prepositioning and distributing relief items in humanitarian logistics with uncertain parameters

SR Abazari, A Aghsami, M Rabbani - Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Humans tackle natural disasters all over the world. Humanitarian supply chain plays an
important role to mitigate damages occurred after a disaster. This research formulates a …

Covering location problems

S García, A Marín - Location science, 2019 - Springer
When deciding where to locate facilities (eg, emergency points where an ambulance will
wait for a call) that provide a service, it happens quite often that a customer (eg, a person) …

A covering tour approach for disaster relief locating and routing with fuzzy demand

A Goli, B Malmir - … journal of intelligent transportation systems research, 2020 - Springer
Optimizing the distribution and allocation of resources among individuals is one of the most
important measures to be taken at the time of crisis. Time, as a vital factor, has a significant …

Designing an integrated pharmaceutical relief chain network under demand uncertainty

M Akbarpour, SA Torabi, A Ghavamifar - Transportation research part e …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper addresses an integrated relief network design problem for pharmaceutical items.
The proposed bi-objective model accounts for perishability of pharmaceutical items, mobility …

An integrated location-routing problem with post-disaster relief distribution

X Wei, H Qiu, D Wang, J Duan, Y Wang… - Computers & Industrial …, 2020 - Elsevier
Quick and wise decisions made regarding depot location and vehicle routing in emergency
logistics play an important role in the relief of affected areas after a disaster. We address an …

A novel option contract integrated with supplier selection and inventory prepositioning for humanitarian relief supply chains

M Aghajani, SA Torabi, J Heydari - Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a novel two-period option contract integrated with supplier selection
and inventory prepositioning. A two-stage scenario-based mixed possibilistic-stochastic …

An applied approach to multi-criteria humanitarian supply chain planning for pandemic response

B Malmir, CW Zobel - Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply …, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose When a large-scale outbreak such as the COVID-19 pandemic happens,
organizations that are responsible for delivering relief may face a lack of both provisions and …

A collaborative humanitarian relief chain design for disaster response

I Shokr, F Jolai, A Bozorgi-Amiri - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Pre-and post-disaster relief operations often involve several humanitarian organizations
(HOs) working simultaneously. Balanced and systemic resource-sharing schemes may …

A method to improve the resilience of multimodal transport network: Location selection strategy of emergency rescue facilities

J Guo, Q Du, Z He - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper studies the location selection strategy of emergency rescue facilities in the
multimodal transport network to improve the resilience of the network. Based on the overall …

A scenario-based collaborative problem for a relief supply chain during post-disaster under uncertain parameters: a real case study in Dorud

A Bakhshi, A Aghsami, M Rabbani - Journal of Modelling in …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose Unfortunately, the occurrence of natural disasters is inevitable all over the world.
Hence, this paper aims to analyze a scenario-based collaborative problem in a relief supply …