Facilitating coordinated disaster relief distribution

What is it about?

Coordination between private and relief organizations is crucial to reduce the impact of disasters. This work presents a decision support system to route and schedule relief goods via transfer points by facilitating both private and public vehicles such as trucks, off-road vehicles as well as UAVs.

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Why is it important?

Decision support systems allow improved operations and further enable training of decision makers in a risk-free environment. As a result, different fleet configurations as well as delivery and transshipment strategies can be investigated by combining optimization and simulation approaches.