Logistics for Large-Scale Disaster Response: Achievements and Challenges Conferences

abstract

• Much research in the operations research (OR) community has focused on commercial logistics or supply chain management, but there is another kind of logistics problem, dealing with emergency response, that has not as yet received much attention. In this paper, we present a literature review of emergency logistics in the context of large-scale disasters. First, we identify key characteristics of large-scale disasters and assess their possible challenges to emergency logistics. Second, we analyze and summarize the current literature on how to deal with these challenges. Finally, we discuss existing gaps in relevant research and suggest future research directions.

authors

• Huang, Kai
• Jiang, Yiping
• Yuan, Yufei
• Zhao, Lindu

status

• published 

publication date

• 2012

published in

• Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences  Journal

presented at event

• 2012 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences  Conference

keywords

• 35 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services
• 3509 Transportation, Logistics and Supply Chains
• 46 Information and Computing Sciences

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/HICSS.2012.418

start page

• 1277

end page

• 1285