Disaster relief routing: Integrating research and practice

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 88-97

  De la Torre, Luis E ^a   Dolinskaya, Irina S ^a   Smilowitz, Karen R ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster relief; Survey; Vehicle routing problem

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; HUMANITARIAN AID; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LOGISTICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY; RESEARCH; ROUTING;

EID: 84155164748     PISSN: 00380121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2011.06.001     Document Type: Article

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