Rapid Distribution of Medical Supplies

Dessouky, Maged; Ordóñez, Fernando; Jia, Hongzhong; Shen, Zhihong

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-33636-7_11

Cited by 19 publications

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“…In Dessouky et al [14] and Jia, Ordóñez, and Dessouky [25], facility location models are presented that deal with the characteristics of disasters. The objective is to locate warehouses that provide the best possible coverage to meet the demand of an impacted area.…”

Section: Preparedness Phasementioning

confidence: 99%

Chapter 14: Vehicle Routing Applications in Disaster Relief

Golden¹,

Kovacs²,

Wasil³

2014

Vehicle Routing

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The working assumption in most Vehicle Routing Problems (VRPs) is that profitable customer requests have to be processed at minimal cost. However, there are VRP applications where servicing a customer has no monetary benefit, but all available resources must be mobilized to provide the best possible service. These applications appear in the context of humanitarian relief, where the key principle is to prevent or alleviate human suffering. This chapter examines a class of problems that obey this principle, namely, VRPs in disaster relief operations.We define a disaster as an extraordinary event that can occur with or without limited forewarning and has devastating effects on the population. Disasters might have different causes: natural (e.g., earthquakes and hurricanes) or man made (e.g., terrorist attacks and industry disasters). Furthermore, one disaster may be the trigger for another, such as an earthquake leading to a tsunami and a tsunami causing an industrial accident. Regardless of the cause, disasters often bring destruction, suffering, and loss of lives at a level that cannot be managed by local emergency units. The severity of the impact on the victims depends on the event's magnitude and on two additional factors (International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies [23]): the affected population's vulnerability, expressed as the inability to resist the hazard, and the available capacities to cope with the effects of the event. As local capacities are overwhelmed after a disaster, national and international aid agencies play an important role in providing the support that is required to alleviate the suffering. Even though local authorities are responsible for the relief operations, the aid agencies are heavily involved in the disaster management process. Their functions include deploying rescue teams and providing essential supplies such as water, food, and medicine to the affected regions.Research in the field of disaster relief routing can make important contributions to support aid agencies in their operational activities and eventually to help save lives.

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Section: Preparedness Phasementioning

confidence: 99%

Chapter 14: Vehicle Routing Applications in Disaster Relief

Golden¹,

Kovacs²,

Wasil³

2014

Vehicle Routing

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“…Rapid distribution of medical supplies plays a crucial role in the effectiveness and efficiency of disaster response. More specifically, designing a suitable vaccine distribution system impacts the healthcare system's performance (Al Theeb and Murray 2016;Dessouky et al 2013). Therefore, when the priority groups for vaccination are determined, the vaccine allocation/assignment problem could be solved.…”

Section: Vrp For Vaccine Distributionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A novel vehicle routing problem for vaccine distribution using SIR epidemic model

2020

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Vaccines and refrigerated trucks are critical resources for controlling the spread of epidemic diseases. This paper addresses a novel bi-objective vehicle routing problem to distribute vaccines among different regions to control the spread of communicable diseases in the aftermath of a disaster. The developed model aims to minimize the social cost incurred by considering different priority groups under the SIR epidemic model and the cost of vehicles used simultaneously. A hybrid solution procedure is developed using the weighted augmented -constraint method, optimal control theory, and dynamic programming. To evaluate the performance of the model and the solution approach, four small test problems and an illustrative example inspired by a real case are presented and their numerical results are discussed.

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“…Considering the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP), some scholars have studied the sub-path ejection chain method under the limit of capacity and path length [16]. A stochastic vehicle routing model is proposed to solve the evacuation problem of flood victims [17]…”

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Emergency Logistics Theory, Model and Method: A Review and Further Research Directions

Fang

Jin

2018

Proceedings of the 2018 3rd International Conference on Communications, Information Management and Network Security (CIMNS 2018

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With the improvement of people's understanding of disaster relief, emergency logistics has become an important guarantee to improve the efficiency of relief and safeguard the safety of people's lives and property in recent years. In this paper, the research theories, methods and models of emergency logistics are classified and sorted out, and different problems such as Location Allocation Problem, Vehicle Routing Problem, Location-Routing Problem are classified and discussed. Under the condition that most of the existing researches mainly focus on response cost and response time, this paper argues that the primary purpose of emergency logistics should be to reduce the loss of people's lives and property. Based on this, an extension study on emergency logistics is proposed to provide ideas for further research in related fields. Keywords-emergency logisticst; disaster relief; methods and models3rd

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Rapid Distribution of Medical Supplies

Cited by 19 publications

References 41 publications

Chapter 14: Vehicle Routing Applications in Disaster Relief

Chapter 14: Vehicle Routing Applications in Disaster Relief

A novel vehicle routing problem for vaccine distribution using SIR epidemic model

Emergency Logistics Theory, Model and Method: A Review and Further Research Directions

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