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2134. Central-Local Governments Cooperate to Pre-Position Relief Supplies for Natural Disaster Response

Invited abstract in session MD-21: Site selection and aid allocation in humanitarian operations, stream OR in Humanitarian Operations (HOpe).

Monday, 14:30-16:00
Room: 49 (building: 116)

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. Cheng-Lin Fong
Departement of Transportation and Logistics Management, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
2. Tsung-Sheng Chang
Department of Transportation and Logistics Management, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Abstract

Prepositioning of relief supplies is crucial for the timely response to disasters. In a country, central government leads the management of mass casualty incidents (MCIs), while local governments must be able to handle non-MCIs that may occur in their responsible areas. To preposition relief supplies, the central and local governments must determine the number, locations and sizes of facilities, and the amount of disaster relief supplies prepositioned in the facilities. Each local government individually optimizes its prepositioning decisions. However, once an MCI happens, the central government needs to coordinate local governments to offer sufficient suppliers to meet the demand from the affected areas. That is, the central government must take the local governments’ prepositioning decisions into account to optimize its nationwide prepositioning decisions. Therefore, this research intends to design incentive schemes that help the central government coordinate the local governments to make optimal prepositioning decisions. To this end, we mathematically model the central government’s prepositioning problem, and then propose a solution algorithm based on the model to solve the problem. An empirical study is conducted to verify the proposed mathematical model and solution approach.

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Status: accepted

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