Evaluate the impact of COVID-19 prevention policies on supply chain aspects under uncertainty

Grida, Mohamed; Mohamed, Rehab; Zaied, Abdel Nasser H.

doi:10.1016/j.trip.2020.100240

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“…These items include food, water, and medical supplies, which would be advantageous during both an evacuation and a pandemic. These findings can appear surprising, because access to resources is a prerequisite for the sharing of resources; to the authors these findings are also somewhat disappointing, because spontaneous resource sharing during a disaster can be an effective way to redistribute resources, especially considering the supply chain disruptions and challenges that have occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic ( Grida et al, 2020 ). However, analysis of past pandemic episodes reveals not only resultant national economic contractions but also increased economic inequality ( Furceri et al, 2020 ).…”

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Dueling emergencies: Flood evacuation ridesharing during the COVID-19 pandemic

Borowski

Cedillo

Stathopoulos

2021

Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives

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Volunteered sharing of resources is often observed in response to disaster events. During evacuations the sharing of resources and vehicles is a crucial mechanism for expanding critical capacity and enabling inclusive disaster response. This paper examines the complexity of rideshare decision-making in the wake of simultaneous emergencies. Specifically, the need for physical distancing measures during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic complicates face-to-face resource sharing between strangers. The ability of on-demand ridesharing to provide emergency transportation to individuals without access to alternatives calls for an understanding of how evacuees weigh risks of contagion against benefits of spontaneous resource sharing. In this research, we examine both sociodemographic and situational factors that contribute to a willingness to share flood evacuation rides with strangers during the COVID-19 pandemic. We hypothesize that the willingness to share is significantly correlated with traditional emergency resource sharing motivations and current COVID-19 risk factors. To test these hypotheses, we distributed an online survey during the pandemic surge in July 2020 to 600 individuals in three midwestern and three southern states in the United States with high risk of flooding. We estimate a random parameter multinomial logit model to determine the willingness to share a ride as a driver or passenger. Our findings show that willingness to share evacuation rides is associated with individual sociodemographics (such as being female, under 36 years old, Black, or republican-identifying) and the social environment (such as households with children, social network proximity, and neighborly sharing attitudes). Moreover, our findings suggest higher levels of income, COVID-19 threat perception, evacuation fear, and household preparedness all correspond with a lower willingness to share rides. We discuss the broader implications of emergency on-demand mobility during concurrent disasters to formulate strategies for transportation agencies and on-demand ridehailing providers.

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Dueling emergencies: Flood evacuation ridesharing during the COVID-19 pandemic

Borowski

Cedillo

Stathopoulos

2021

Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives

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“…However, it has become increasingly and severely complicated for the economies to address the problems, and manage their solutions when it comes to the current COVID-19 pandemic situation. this novel virus has created several hurdles for many countries, as referred to in the arguments presented by Grida et al (2020). In this regard, Figure 1 below presents the contribution of the logistical performance on the GDP in some countries, and indicates that the logistical performance of any country significantly contributes towards its GDP.…”

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Impact of COVID-19 on transportation and logistics: a case of China

Chu

et al. 2021

Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja

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Recent research has shown that the COVID-19 pandemic has holistically affected the financial and industrial sectors of China, in a considerably adverse manner. This paper aims to examine the impact of the COVID-19 virus on the transportation and logistics sector in China. In this regard, the study opted for a quantitative method of research design, along with primary data collection. The explanatory variable here is the COVID-19 virus, whereas, the dependent variables are air freight, ocean freight, and land freight. The data analysis technique used is the Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) analysis, comprising of the Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and the path assessment method. A structured survey questionnaire was also used, and the survey questionnaire scale was set from strongly agree to disagree strongly. The findings revealed that the effect of COVID-19 on air freight is statistically negative and significant. Moreover, the impact of COVID-19 on land freight is statistically negative and significant, whereas the effect of COVID-19 is statistically insignificant in the context of ocean freight, particularly during the period of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, keeping these results in consideration, policymakers can enhance their support, so as to increase the performance of the logistics and transportation sector in China.

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“…Additionally, some recent studies devoted their resources to address different aspects of SARS-COV-2 in the concept of supply chain network. ( [48] ) applied uncertainty to evaluate the impact on Covid-19 on supply chain policies on various industries including food industry, electronics industry, pharmaceutical industry, and textile industry. The proposed policy claimed to enhance the supply chain features when dealing uncertain condition.…”

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Utilizing IoT to design a relief supply chain network for the SARS-COV-2 pandemic

Zahedi

Salehi-Amiri

Smith

et al. 2021

Applied Soft Computing

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The current universally challenging SARS-COV-2 pandemic has transcended all the social, logical, economic, and mortal boundaries regarding global operations. Although myriad global societies tried to address this issue, most of the employed efforts seem superficial and failed to deal with the problem, especially in the healthcare sector. On the other hand, the Internet of Things (IoT) has enabled healthcare system for both better understanding of the patient’s condition and appropriate monitoring in a remote fashion. However, there has always been a gap for utilizing this approach on the healthcare system especially in agitated condition of the pandemics. Therefore, in this study, we develop two innovative approaches to design a relief supply chain network is by using IoT to address multiple suspected cases during a pandemic like the SARS-COV-2 outbreak. The first approach (prioritizing approach) minimizes the maximum ambulances response time, while the second approach (allocating approach) minimizes the total critical response time. Each approach is validated and investigated utilizing several test problems and a real case in Iran as well. A set of efficient meta-heuristics and hybrid ones is developed to optimize the proposed models. The proposed approaches have shown their versatility in various harsh SARS-COV-2 pandemic situations being dealt with by managers. Finally, we compare the two proposed approaches in terms of response time and route optimization using a real case study in Iran. Implementing the proposed IoT-based methodology in three consecutive weeks, the results showed 35.54% decrease in the number of confirmed cases.

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Evaluate the impact of COVID-19 prevention policies on supply chain aspects under uncertainty

Cited by 89 publications

References 14 publications

Dueling emergencies: Flood evacuation ridesharing during the COVID-19 pandemic

Dueling emergencies: Flood evacuation ridesharing during the COVID-19 pandemic

Impact of COVID-19 on transportation and logistics: a case of China

Utilizing IoT to design a relief supply chain network for the SARS-COV-2 pandemic

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