Inventory-Allocation distribution models for postdisaster humanitarian logistics with explicit consideration of deprivation costs

Transportation Science

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1261-1285

  Pérez Rodríguez, Noel ^a   Holguín Veras, José ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Deprivation cost; Humanitarian logistics; Inventory allocation; Social costs

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; LOGISTICS;

DISTRIBUTION MODELS; HEURISTIC SOLUTIONS; HUMANITARIAN LOGISTICS; INVENTORY ALLOCATION; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS; RELIEF DISTRIBUTION; SOCIAL COST;

COSTS;

EID: 84995486526     PISSN: 00411655     EISSN: 15265447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/trsc.2014.0565     Document Type: Article

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