Planning for Medical Emergency Transportation Vehicles during Natural Disasters

• Published in: Journal of optimization in industrial engineering Vol. 13; no. 2; pp. 185 - 197
• Main Authors: Hesam Adrang, Ali Bozorgi-Amiri, Kaveh Khalili-Damghani, Reza Tavakkoli-Moghaddam
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Islamic Azad University, Qazvin Branch 01.07.2020
• Subjects: disaster; location-routing; medical emergency services; mixed-integer linear programming; ε-constraint

One of the main critical steps that should be taken during natural disasters is the assignment and distribution of resources among affected people. In such situations, this can save many lives. Determining the demands for critical items (i.e., the number of injured people) is very important. Accordi...