Prepositioning of supplies in preparation for a hurricane under potential destruction of prepositioned supplies

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 20-37

  Galindo, Gina ^a   Batta, Rajan ^a  

^a the State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster; Facility location; Logistics; Optimization; Prepositioning supplies; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

DISASTER RELIEF; FACILITY LOCATION; HURRICANE; LOGISTICS; NATURAL DISASTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84873098122     PISSN: 00380121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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