Relief Distribution in Humanitarian Logistics: A Literature Review
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This study undertakes a review of the literature on relief distribution, which is a part of humanitarian logistics. Researchers’ interest in relief distribution has grown over the previous two decades, as indicated by the growing number of studies on the subject, both in the pre-disaster and post-disaster phases. The initial step in humanitarian logistics is determining the site of the distribution center, health care facility, and shelter, as well as allocating resources to that place. The second step is to determine the transportation route for commodity/resource relief delivery in the disaster logistics network. Transportation issues are inextricably linked to the evacuation of disaster victims and inventory management. As a result, the difficulties addressed in this study include location/allocation, routing, distribution and evacuation, and integration issue, which is integration of location/allocation, routing, inventory, and others. The type of data modelling, objective function, time period, commodity type number, and solution method for each problem will be examined. Topics that can be developed for additional investigation will be discussed in the final section.
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