A research on vehicle scheduling problem to rescue the victims from chemical and biological terrorist attacks

Z, Liu; Yu, Hua; Liu, Degang; Wang, Juyun

doi:10.1109/ical.2011.6024742

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“…Some articles that present evacuation models are those by Chiu and Zheng [29], Czajkowski [36], Li et al [71], Liu et al [75], and Ozdamar [88]. As an example, Ozdamar [ Evidently, health-related activities are also fundamental in the response stage (Liu et al [75], Valdmanis et al [114]). One of the most frequently addressed questions regarding health-care response is how to quickly and effectively reach and treat victims of a disaster.…”

Section: Responsementioning

confidence: 95%

“…Depending on the disaster, there are multiple methods to accomplish this. For instance, Liu et al [75] dealt with vehicle routing and the assignments of victims to hospitals in the context of a chemical/biological terrorist attack, so as to maximize the probability of victims receiving treatments and minimize the waiting times, taking into account hospital capacities.…”

Section: Responsementioning

confidence: 99%

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Humanitarian Logistics

Çelik¹,

Ergün²,

Johnson³

et al. 2012

2012 TutORials in Operations Research

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Please scroll down for article-it is on subsequent pagesINFORMS is the largest professional society in the world for professionals in the fields of operations research, management science, and analytics. For more information on INFORMS, its publications, membership, or meetings visit http://www.informs.org INFORMS 2012 c 2012 INFORMS | isbn 978-0-9843378-3-5 http://dx.Abstract The increase in natural and man-made disasters in the recent years has highlighted challenging problems in humanitarian operations, in addition to major long-term humanitarian development challenges. Humanitarian logistics plays an important role in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from sudden-onset disasters and addressing long-term development issues. The management of humanitarian logistics operations involves many challenges such as conflicting objectives from multiple stakeholders, coordination and collaboration, high uncertainty, and scarcity of resources. In this tutorial, we provide an introduction to humanitarian logistics and its main application areas while outlining current research trends and the major challenges faced in the area today. We also present four decision aid tools addressing typical applications of humanitarian logistics: network design for donated human breast milk delivery in South Africa, port simulation and shipment scheduling for a large international agency, demand estimation and emergency procurement for CARE, and postdisaster medical response under accessibility issues. In presenting these decision aid tools, we aim to underline the differences in issues arising from sudden-onset disasters and long-term development problems, various stages of the life cycle of disasters, and different decision levels, while also pointing to general aspects in modeling humanitarian logistics problems.

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Section: Responsementioning

confidence: 95%

Section: Responsementioning

confidence: 99%

Humanitarian Logistics

Çelik¹,

Ergün²,

Johnson³

et al. 2012

2012 TutORials in Operations Research

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“…The authors present a health service model developed for the sudden-onset disasters to analyze the effectiveness of medical response. Liu et al (2011) addressed vehicle routing and assignment of victims to hospitals in case of terrorist attacks. Their objective is to maximize the effectiveness of medical response taking into consideration individual hospital capacity.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…flood, earthquake and hurricane) also affects the status of existing transportation systems. Moreover, in the case of sudden-onset disasters that are hard to forecast, preparedness activities are limited, so the existing medical market's capabilities need to be quickly assessed and lacking medical supplies need to be externally procured as quickly as possible ( Jia et al, 2007;Liu et al, 2011;Celik et al, 2012). Such disasters also typically receive more media attention, which drives donations up (Celik et al, 2012).…”

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“…their physical and chemical characteristics) commonly determines their supply requirements (McGuire, 2011). The existing medical market determines the medical supply (Salmeron and Apte, 2010;Hoyos et al, 2015), costs and shortage avoidance (Mete and Zabinsky, 2010;Privett and Gonsalvez, 2014;Boulet-Desbareau, 2016), capacity ( Jia et al, 2007;Mete and Zabinsky, 2010;Liu et al 2011;Ruan et al, 2014;Hoyos et al, 2015), location (Yi and Özdamar, 2007;Jia et al, 2007;Celik et al, 2012;Ruan et al, 2014 Hoyos et al, 2015) and congestion of the medical centers (Celik et al, 2012). The state of the medical market present within the affected region directly impacts the effectiveness of HMSCs, since IHOs have to operate within the current system, while focusing on closing the existing gaps.…”

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Humanitarian medical supply chain in disaster response

Dolinskaya

Besiou

Guerrero-Garcia

2018

JHLSCM

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Purpose Following a large-scale disaster, medical assistance is a critical component of the emergency response. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach Academic and practitioner literature is used to develop a framework studying the effectiveness of the humanitarian medical supply chain (HMSC). The framework is validated by using the findings of interviews conducted with experts and the case study of a serious humanitarian medical crisis (Ebola outbreak in 2014). Findings The factors affecting the effectiveness of the HMSC are identified. Research limitations/implications To get an expert opinion on the major logistical challenges of the medical assistance in emergencies only 11 interviews with practitioners were conducted. Originality/value While the existing academic literature discusses the distribution of various supplies needed by the affected population, limited research focuses specifically on studying the HMSC aspect of the response. This paper closes this gap by describing the HMSC in the case of disaster response, and identifying the factors affecting its effectiveness, especially focusing on the factors that are unique to the medical aspect of the humanitarian supply chain.

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Study on Real-Time Vehicle Scheduling Problem to Rescue Victims in Chemical and Biological Terrorist Attacks

Wang

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Electrical and Information Technologies for Rail Transportation (EITRT2013)

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A research on vehicle scheduling problem to rescue the victims from chemical and biological terrorist attacks

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