Article ID: | iaor2013444 |
Volume: | 49 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 217 |
End Page Number: | 249 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2013 |
Journal: | Transportation Research Part E |
Authors: | Dullaert Wout, Eshghi Kourosh, Najafi Mehdi |
Keywords: | programming: multiple criteria |
Usually, resources are short in supply when earthquakes occur. In such emergency situations, disaster relief organizations must use these scarce resources efficiently to achieve the best possible emergency relief. This paper therefore proposes a multi‐objective, multi‐mode, multi‐commodity, and multi‐period stochastic model to manage the logistics of both commodities and injured people in the earthquake response. Also, a robust approach is developed and used to make sure that the distribution plan performs well under the various situations that can follow an earthquake. Afterwards, it proposes a solution methodology according to hierarchical objective functions and uses it to illustrate the customized robust modeling approach.