Pre-positioning of emergency supplies for disaster response

Rawls, C. G., & Turnquist, M. A. (2010). Pre-positioning of emergency supplies for disaster response. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 44(4), 521-534.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2010

Volume

44

Issue

4

Pages

521-534

DOI

10.1016/j.trb.2009.08.003

DOI registrant

Elsevier

Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trb.2009.08.003

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Mechanisms

• Forecast-Based Resource Prepositioning
  • It is the just-in-case counterpart to just-in-time — accepting some idle, possibly-wasted inventory in exchange for being ready when reaction would be too slow.

    This sourceDocuments accepting some idle, possibly-wasted inventory; in exchange for being ready when reaction would be too slow.

• Resource Prepositioning
  • The guarding discipline is to stage reusable, repositionable capacity and to hold a portfolio across plausible triggers rather than betting the depot on one; disciplined humanitarian prepositioning

    This sourceOptimizes the locations and quantities of several emergency commodities across uncertain disaster locations, demand, and network conditions.

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