Health care logistics, emergency preparedness, and disaster relief: New challenges for routing problems with a focus on the Austrian situation

Operations Research/ Computer Science Interfaces Series

Volumn 43, Issue , 2008, Pages 527-550

  Doerner, Karl F ^a   Hartl, Richard F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Disaster relief; Emergency response; Health care logistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888630008     PISSN: 1387666X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-77778-8_24     Document Type: Article

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