The impact of transportation capacity in pre‐positioning humanitarian supplies
Alexander Rothkopf,
Jason Acimovic,
Jarrod Goentzel
Abstract:Humanitarian action saves lives by delivering supplies following a disaster. To effectively prepare, large humanitarian organizations solve optimization models to allocate inventory minimizing expected time‐to‐respond. However, these organizations also rely on transportation carriers to deliver this inventory, a feature often omitted from such models. Part of the reason is that capacity data on third‐party carriers are scant. Nevertheless, there is value in humanitarian organizations asking themselves the foll… Show more
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