Proceedings of ICLT 2015

MULTI-PERIOD HUMANITARIAN LOGISTICS MODEL CONSIDERING TEMPORARY DEPOT LOCATION IN FLOOD DISASTER

Wapee Manopiniwes; Takashi Irohara

Faculty of Science and Technology, Sophia University, Japan; College of Arts, Media and Technology, Chiang Mai University, Thailand

International Conference on Logistics & Transport 2015, Lyon, France, pp. 123-132

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Abstract

The challenges of humanitarian logistics have number of key aspects that clearly differentiate them from those of the commercial world (Tatham and Christopher, 2014). During emergencies various aid organizations often face significant problems of transporting large amounts of many different commodities including food, clothing, medicine, medical supplies, machinery, and personnel from different points of origin to different destinations in the disaster areas.

Keywords

logistics; port; food; humanitarian; disaster

Citation

Wapee Manopiniwes; Takashi Irohara (2015). MULTI-PERIOD HUMANITARIAN LOGISTICS MODEL CONSIDERING TEMPORARY DEPOT LOCATION IN FLOOD DISASTER. Proceedings of the International Conference on Logistics & Transport (ICLT 2015), Lyon, France, pp. 123-132.