An emergency logistics distribution approach for quick response to urgent relief demand in disasters

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 687-709

  Sheu, Jiuh Biing ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Emergency logistics distribution; Fuzzy clustering; Logistics; Multi objective optimization; Relief demand forecasting

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; LOGISTICS; METHODOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; PLANNING METHOD; SEARCH AND RESCUE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 34548502194     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2006.04.004     Document Type: Article

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