In large-scale disasters, such as earthquakes and tsunamis, quick sufficient transportation of emergency relief supplies is required. Logistics activities conducted to quickly provide appropriate aid (relief goods) people affected by disasters are known humanitarian logistics (HL), play an important role in terms saving the lives those affected. previous last-mile distribution HL, transported t...

The study seeks to understand the drivers and barriers for horizontal coordination among humanitarian organizations from both practitioners and academics sources. It identifies four categories of factors environmental factors, factors associated with donors’ role, interorganizational factors and organizational factors influencing coordination effort among humanitarian organizations.

Disasters mobilize hundreds of organizations, but coordination among them remains a challenge. This is why the United Nations has formed clusters to facilitate information and resource exchange humanitarian organizations. Yet, failures in prior disasters raise questions as effectiveness cluster approach coordinating relief efforts. To better understand barriers coordination, we developed ground...

Serious games are an effective tool for giving players a hands-on, immersive experience of crisis situations. To simplify the design of such games while ensuring their relevance, we propose a design method that is based on reference tasks. The feasibility of this approach is demonstrated by the improved design of the serious game “Disaster in my Backyard” that has been played during ISCRAM Summ...

In the aftermath of a hurricane, humanitarian logistics plays critical role in delivering relief items to affected areas timely fashion. This paper proposes novel stochastic look-ahead framework that implements two-stage programming model rolling horizon approach address evolving uncertain system state during post-hurricane operations. The executes this is formulated as mixed-integer problem. a...

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This paper presents a multi-objective model for location-transportation problem under uncertainty that has been developed to respond to crisis. In the proposed model, humanitarian aid distribution centers (HADC), the number and location of them, the amount of relief goods stored in distribution centers, the amount of relief goods sent to the disaster zone, the number of injured people transferr...