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In large-scale disasters, such as earthquakes and tsunamis, quick and sufficient transportation of emergency relief supplies is required. Logistics activities conducted to quickly provide appropriate aid supplies (relief goods) to people affected by...

This paper delves into optimizing the rotation of relief supplies within the relief supply chain system, concentrating on reserve quantity decisions for governments and humanitarian organizations involved in disaster response. By integrating a trade-...

Coordinating humanitarian organizations in the procurement of urgently needed relief items is complex and characterized by decentralization and isolated decision-making. The decentralized coordination of associated tasks often results in the duplicat...

This paper develops a novel government reserve strategy, employing a blockchain-supported second-hand E-commerce platform, specifically designed to mitigate the depreciation and expiration of disaster relief supplies. Utilizing the newsvendor model a...

Massive relief supplies inter-regional lateral transshipment (MRSIRLT) can significantly enhance the efficiency of disaster response, meet the needs of affected areas (AAs), and reduce deprivation costs. This paper develops an integrated allocation a...

Natural disasters (e.g., floods, earthquakes) significantly impact citizens, economies, and the environment worldwide. Due to their sudden onset, devastating effects, and high uncertainty, it is crucial for emergency departments to take swift action...

Demand calculation, which is the base of most logistics decisions and activities, is a critical work in humanitarian logistics (HL). However, previous studies on demand calculation in HL mainly focus on demand forecasting methodology, with many negle...

This article presents the results of the implementation of a forecasting model, to predict the relief materials needed for assisting in decisions prior to natural disasters, thus filling a gap in the exploration of Generalized Linear Mixed Models (GL...

In smart cities, relief items distribution is a complex task due to the factors such as incomplete information, unpredictable exact demand, lack of resources, and causality levels, to name a few. With the development of Internet of Things (IoT) techn...

Every organization typically comprises various internal components, including regional branches, operations centers/field offices, major transportation hubs, and operational units, among others, housing a population susceptible to disaster impacts. M...

Estimating disaster relief supplies is crucial for governments coordinating and executing disaster relief operations. Rapid and accurate estimation of disaster relief supplies can assist the government to optimize the allocation of resources and bett...

With growing concerns about environmental issues, sustainable transport schemes are receiving more attention than ever before. Reducing pollutant emissions during vehicle driving is an essential way of achieving sustainable transport plans. To achiev...

Concerning the dependence of land taxation on the cadastral or market value of lands in developed and developing countries, the role of land resources in the system of socio-economic development is quite high. World studies show the presence of metho...

This paper presents a neural network–driven framework for solving the inverse problem of initial parameter estimation in air-dropped package missions. Unlike traditional analytical methods, which are computationally intensive and often impracti...

As supply chains become increasingly digitized and decentralized, ensuring security, traceability, and data integrity has emerged as a critical concern. Blockchain technology has shown significant potential to address these challenges by providing im...

The increasing complexity and often transboundary scope of complex emergencies are exceeding the capacity of humanitarian logistics systems. The military plays a growing role in supplementing and even leading humanitarian assistance and disaster reli...

Alleviating human sufferings during and in the aftermath of disasters is one of the most important goals in humanitarian relief logistics. The lack of relief commodities, especially life-saving items, is a life-threatening loss to victims and must be...

Unpredictable natural disasters brought by extreme climate change compound difficulties and cause a variety of systemic risks. It is thus critical to provide possibilistic scheduling schemes that simultaneously involve emergency evacuation and relief...

This paper proposes a two-stage stochastic non-cooperative game model to solve relief supplies procurement and distribution optimization of multiple rescue organizations in crisis rescue. Rescue organizations with limited budgets minimize rescue cost...

As disasters become progressively more frequent and complex, better collaboration through partnerships with private business becomes more important. This research aimed to understand how platforms support the engagement of the private sector—especial...

The location and allocation of emergency supplies are an important part of emergency rescue work. The existing emergency location and allocation process is inefficient, costly, and neglects the psychology of victims. To improve the emergency relief w...

This study builds on the extant literature of supply chain collaboration, specifically, vertical and horizontal collaboration, and examines how these capabilities influence the resilience of supply chains that experience regular natural disasters in...

This paper analyzes different government debt relief programs in the European Monetary Union. I build a model and study different options ranging from debt relief to the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). The analysis reveals the following: First, p...

The outbreak of an epidemic disease may cause a large number of infections and a slightly higher death rate. In response to epidemic disease, both patient transfer and relief distribution are significant to reduce corresponding damage. This study pro...

Disasters that involve displacement are particularly challenging for managing personal and menstrual hygiene, which can increase the risk of toxic shock syndrome, infections and other health conditions that can endanger women’s lives. This stud...

Disaster logistics management is vital in planning and organizing humanitarian assistance distribution. The planning problem faces challenges, such as coordinating the allocation and distribution of essential resources while considering the severity...

The western region of Sichuan Province, located in the Hengduan Mountains, is one of China’s most seismically active zones. Due to limited land resources, many villages in western Sichuan Province are situated in mountainous and valley areas, f...

One of the primary tasks of supply-side reform is to promote the reform of fiscal and taxation systems. It is an important part of institutional innovation to coordinate fiscal and other reforms. From the perspective of the supply side, this paper di...

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) to chronic total occlusion (CTO) is still a subject of debate. The primary goal of revascularization is to provide symptomatic relief and enhance left ventricular (LV) functions. Global longitudinal strain (GL...

Awareness of the requested quantity and characteristics of emergency supplies is crucial for facilitating an efficient relief operation. With the aim of focusing on the quantitative study of immediate food supplies, this article estimates the numeric...

Humanitarian supply chains play a major role in enabling disaster-affected areas to recover in a timely manner and enable economic and social activities to be restored. However, the sudden onset and increasing frequency of natural disasters such as f...

The distribution of medical supplies tied to the government-owned nonprofit organizations (GNPOs) is crucial to the sustainable and high-quality development of emergency response to public health emergencies. This paper constructs a two-sided GNPO&nd...

Background: The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in humanitarian logistics is essential for improving coordination and decision making, especially in the challenging landscape of disaster-relief settings. However, the current literature offer...

Emergency material vehicle dispatching and routing (EMVDR) is an important task in emergency relief after large-scale earthquake disasters. However, EMVDR is subject to dynamic disaster environment, with uncertainty surrounding elements such as the t...

Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications can be applied in emergency material scheduling due to their performance in collecting and transmitting disaster-related data in real time. The urgency of disaster depots can be judged based on the disaster...

Disasters accompanied by heavy casualties and huge economic losses directly result in the disruption or delay of economic development. Considering the urgent need for reducing losses and accelerating the process of social recovery, international nong...

Throughout history, humanity has grappled with infectious diseases that pose serious risks to health and life. The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted society, prompting significant reflection on preparedness and response strategies. In the fut...

During financial crises, liquidity tends to become scarce, a problem that disproportionately affects small companies. This paper shows that obligation-clearing is a very effective liquidity-saving method for providing relief in the trade credit marke...

This paper explores a multi-objective, multi-period integrated routing and scheduling problem under uncertain conditions for distributing relief to disaster areas. The goals are to minimize costs and maximize satisfaction levels. To achieve this, the...

Investigating the experience and improvement measures for China’s distinctive land supply participation in macro-control processes holds significance for full utilization of land policy. However, the spatial heterogeneity and its theoretical an...

Pre-disaster and post-disaster allocation strategies are widely investigated as the single optimization problem in humanitarian supply chain management, while integrated decisions including the above two problems are seldom discussed in the existing...

Helicopters and vehicles are often jointly used to transport key relief supplies and respond to disaster situations when supply nodes are far away from demand nodes or the key roads to affected areas are cut off. Emergency transfer centers (ETCs) are...

This study presents a bibliometric analysis of research on technology in the humanitarian supply chain. The methodology includes performance analysis and science mapping to explore the application of technologies in humanitarian supply chains. This p...

To cope with the net load variability in real time, sufficient ramp capability from controllable resources is required. To address the issue of insufficient ramp capacity in real time operations, flexible ramping products (FRPs) have been adopted by...

The urban water cycle spends energy to provide communities drinking water and to treat produced wastewater. The same cycle can also provide energy by exploiting the kinetic energy of water flowing into the network to turn turbines and generate electr...

The increasing frequency and intensity of extreme disasters, exacerbated by climate change, pose significant challenges to sustainable development by disrupting critical infrastructure and hampering relief efforts. Enhancing disaster resilience&mdash...

It has been shown that there are thresholds of influence on the response of ecosystem services to their drivers, and the range of drivers that provide high levels of ecosystem services can be delineated through thresholds. However, due to the spatial...

After a typhoon disaster, selecting effective paths is crucial for ensuring the efficiency of emergency rescue operations and the distribution of essential supplies, which are vital for sustainable disaster response and community resilience. Current...

Climate change poses a series of challenges to water management to satisfy society’s current and future needs. Considering water an essential resource for life, this research is dedicated to comparing the environmental impacts caused by the con...

Prevailing and exacerbating impacts of climate change call for robust and resilient humanitarian supply chains (HSCs). To that end, intelligent technologies that brought about the Industry 4.0 (I4.0) revolution, such as the Internet of Things, blockc...