Planning Emergency Shelters for Urban Disaster Resilience: An Integrated Location-Allocation Modeling Approach

Emergency and disaster planning at Ohio animal shelters.

Results of a cross-sectional study to determine the level of emergency and disaster response planning at Ohio nonhuman animal shelters and the role Ohio agencies have in emergency and disaster response planning in their communities indicated a lack of preparedness coupled with underutilization of the agencies as a resource. A total of 115 agencies (68%) responded to a standardized survey mailed...

A planning framework for post-disaster collective shelters

Background and objective: Accommodation of the victims is necessary immediately after the accident to maintain order and reduce mental, psychological and physical crises, as well as providing better services to the victims of the accident. The experience of the AQ-Qala flood and the temporary accommodation of the victims in sports venues has made the need for the design of a collective shelter ...

An Integrated Approach for Facility Location and Supply Vessel Planning with Time Windows

This paper presents a new model of two-echelon periodic supply vessel planning problem with time windows mix of facility location (PSVPTWMFL-2E) in an offshore oil and gas industry. The new mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) modelconsists ofa fleet composition problem and a location-routing problem (LRP). The aim of the model is to determine the size and type of large vessels in the fi...

Emergency Resource Allocation for Disaster Response: An Evolutionary Approach

The efficient response to a disaster plays an important role in decreasing its impact on affected victims. In some cases, the high volume of potential casualties as well as the urgency of a fast response increase the complexity of the disaster response mission. Such cases have created a need for developing an effective and efficient disaster response strategy. This paper focuses on developing a...

Integrated business continuity and disaster recovery planning: Towards organizational resilience