TY - GEN
T1 - A Proposal for a Relief Supply Matching System
AU - Fukumoto, Junya
AU - Habu, Hirotaka
AU - Hashimoto, Hiroyuki
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 26630235.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/7/2
Y1 - 2018/7/2
N2 - Following a large scale disaster, a lot of people and organizations are spontaneously motivated to provide relief supplies to disaster survivors. This process is fraught with challenges due to the lack of an efficient matching mechanism between the survivors' needs and the supplies provided. In this study, we propose a matching system that streamlines the relief supplies logistics. The proposed system uses three types of information (the needs of the disaster survivors, available supplies from the supporters, and inventories at the collection facilities) and output plans for allocating, delivering, and storing supplies. Four matching methods (the demand fulfillment maximization method, time priority method, apportionment method, and multi-purpose optimization method) are defined and each of these is formulated as a mathematical programming problem. The effectiveness and characteristics of the matching system are demonstrated through case studies.
AB - Following a large scale disaster, a lot of people and organizations are spontaneously motivated to provide relief supplies to disaster survivors. This process is fraught with challenges due to the lack of an efficient matching mechanism between the survivors' needs and the supplies provided. In this study, we propose a matching system that streamlines the relief supplies logistics. The proposed system uses three types of information (the needs of the disaster survivors, available supplies from the supporters, and inventories at the collection facilities) and output plans for allocating, delivering, and storing supplies. Four matching methods (the demand fulfillment maximization method, time priority method, apportionment method, and multi-purpose optimization method) are defined and each of these is formulated as a mathematical programming problem. The effectiveness and characteristics of the matching system are demonstrated through case studies.
KW - disaster relief supplies
KW - humanitarian logistics
KW - matching system
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U2 - 10.1109/ICT-DM.2018.8636392
DO - 10.1109/ICT-DM.2018.8636392
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85062868194
T3 - 2018 5th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management, ICT-DM 2018
BT - 2018 5th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management, ICT-DM 2018
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 5th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management, ICT-DM 2018
Y2 - 4 December 2018 through 7 December 2018
ER -