HADS, a goal programming-based humanitarian aid distribution system

✍ Scribed by B. Vitoriano; T. Ortuño; G. Tirado

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 310 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1057-9214
• DOI: 10.1002/mcda.439

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

In recent years, natural and human‐made disasters have been affecting increasing numbers of people throughout the world. Organizations and budgets for emergency and humanitarian aid have experienced an important growth, and efficiency in disaster management becomes crucial. There is a lack of specific tools devoted to logistics of this special kind of interventions in developing countries, demanded by the organizations. A decision support system for logistic operations currently in development is presented, focusing on the transport problem to distribute humanitarian aid to the population affected by a disaster in a developing country. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.