2015Models, solutions and enabling technologies in humanitarian logistics

EuropeanJournalofOperationalResearch244(2015)55–65

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Models,solutionsandenablingtechnologiesinhumanitarianlogistics

LinetÖzdamara,∗,MustafaAlpErtemb,1

aIndustrialandSystemsEngineeringDepartment,YeditepeUniversity,26A˘gustosYerle¸simiKayı¸sda˘gıCad.,34755˙Istanbul,TurkeybDepartmentofIndustrialEngineering,ÇankayaUniversity,Eski¸sehirYolu29.km,06810Ankara,Turkey

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Articlehistory:Received13February2014Accepted18November2014Availableonline26November2014

Keywords:HumanitarianlogisticsModelingapproachesInformationsystemsabstract

Wepresentasurveythatfocusesontheresponseandrecoveryplanningphasesofthedisasterlifecycle.Relatedmathematicalmodelsdevelopedinthisareaofresearchareclassifiedintermsofvehicle/networkrepresentationstructuresandtheirfunctionality.Therelationshipsbetweenthesecharacteristicsandmodelsizearediscussed.Thereviewprovidesdetailsongoals,constraints,andstructuresofavailablemathematicalmodelsaswellassolutionmethods.Inthisreview,informationsystemsapplicationsinhumanitarianlogis-ticsarealsosurveyed,sincehumanitarianlogisticsmodelsandtheirsolutionsneedtobeintegratedwithinformationtechnologytoenabletheiruseinpractice.©2014ElsevierB.V.Allrightsreserved.

1.Introduction

Sincethe1950s,thenumberandmagnitudeofdisastershave

grownexponentially,thenumberofaffectedpeoplehasgrownin

proportion(about300millionpersonsperannumontheaverage

sincethe1990s)andtheannualdamagecostshaverisentoabout

0.17percentoftheworldGDP(Guha-Sapir,Hoyois,&Below,2014).

TheInternationalDisasterDatabaseindicatesthatAsiaandtheAmer-

icasarethemostaffectedcontinentsbydisasters(mostlybyfloods,

quakesandstorms)withEuropestandingasthethirdmostaffected

continent.

Recently,researchershaveconductedvarioussurveysondisas-

termanagement.AltayandGreen(2006)emphasizelifecyclephases

indisasteroperationsmanagement,andlateron,Apte(2009)dis-

cussesdetailsofsolutionmethodsandlimitationsofproposedmod-

elsdesignedforeachphase.Natarajarathinam,Capar,andNarayanan

(2009)provideareviewforsupplychainsintimesofcrisisinboth

OR/MSandsupplychainmanagementjournals.Caunhye,Nie,and

Pokharel(2012)reviewoptimizationmodelsforpre-disasterfacility

location,stockprepositioning,reliefdistribution,andcasualtytrans-

portation.delaTorre,Dolinskaya,andSmilowitz(2012)focuson

reliefroutingmodelswithanemphasisonegalitarianandutilitarian

objectivesindisasterresponse.GalindoandBatta(2013)compare

andcontrastthearticlesinAltayandGreen(2006)withrecentde-

velopmentsinhumanitarianlogisticstohighlightwhetherOR/MS

researchershaveaddressedtheaforementionedliteraturegaps.

∗Correspondingauthor.Tel.:+902165780450,+902165780000;fax:+902165780400.E-mailaddresses:ozdamar.linet@gmail.com(L.Özdamar),alpertem@gmail.com(M.A.Ertem).1Tel.:+903122331367;fax:+903122331026.Anaya-Arenas,Renaud,andRuiz(2014)discusslocationandtrans-

portationmodelsandcategorizethemaccordingtotheirobjectives,

constraintsandsolutionmethods.Weobservethatinthesesurveys,

recoveryphasemodelsarenotasemphasizedaspreparednessand

responsemodels.

Here,wereviewthelogisticsmodelsdevelopedfortheresponse

andrecoveryplanningphasesintermsoftheirmodelingfeatures

andformulationstructures.Selectedarticlesdescribevariousmodels

thataretypicalwithrespecttothelatterfeatures.Wediscussvehicle

representationstylesthatimpactmodelsolvabilityincapacitated

vehicleroutingmodelsandcategorizerelevantmodelsaccordingly.

Weregretthatwecannotciteallavailablepaperspertainingtoeach

categoryduetospacelimitations.

Wealsoinvestigatethetechnologicaladvancesthatfacilitatethe

executionofproposedmodelsandsolutionsonvarioustypesofinfor-

mationsystems.Thelatterreviewleadstotheobservationthatstan-

dardsoftwarethatintegratesdifferentplanningphasesisneededin

ordertoachieveunobstructedinternationalhumanitariancoopera-

tion.Thegoalwouldbetoenableglobalaccesstosuchsoftwarebyall

countriessharingemergencyresources.Weendthesurveywithcon-

cludingremarksthatpointouttheareasthatbearmoreimprovement.

Wenotethatthissurveyoverlapspartiallywiththeonepresented

inakeynotespeech(Özdamar,EURO-INFORMSConference,July2nd,

2013,Rome).

2.Concentrationareasinhumanitarianlogisticsresearch

Humanitarianlogisticsresearchisdedicatedtothefollowing

threeplanningstagesinthedisasterlifecycle:(pre-disaster)pre-

parednessphase,(post-disaster)responseandrecoveryphases.In

thepre-disasterphase,preparednessplansandrisk-preventionac-

tions,suchasinfrastructureandbuildingre-enforcement,reduce

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