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Title:

Multimodal Logical Architecture for Emergency Transportation Toward Better Decision Making in Humanitarian Logistics

Accession Number:

01550572

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Humanitarian logistics has emerged as a vital tool to reduce and alleviate the harmful impacts and suffering caused by extreme events. A significant task of planners and decision makers involved in humanitarian logistics is planning for and satisfying the vital needs of the people during highly stochastic disaster/catastrophe conditions. To accomplish this, there is a clear research need to describe and evaluate a multi-modal logical architecture of efficient emergency transportation operations that will support decision makers to generate and evaluate decision alternatives for solving the problems related to transporting vital supplies during highly stochastic disaster conditions. To be more specific, the humanitarian multi-modal logical architecture described in this paper is created as a comprehensive needs assessment effort and knowledge base that can be used in the creation of software tools for the movement of emergency supplies. This paper carefully describes the steps needed to create such a logical architecture for multi-modal humanitarian logistics with an emphasis on the sustainability and resiliency of the emergency relief system in the event of a disaster/catastrophe. During the extensive process of evaluation of the proposed logical architecture, a thorough study and general assessment of the transportation network and infrastructure based on system profiles, availability, allocation, and optimal assignment of critical resources and database requirements are also conducted, followed by a case study applied to the NY-NJ-CT-PA CSA region. Finally, future directions on the usage of this comprehensive logical architecture are discussed.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AT065 Logistics of Disaster Response and Business Continuity.

Monograph Accession #:

01550057

Report/Paper Numbers:

15-3297

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Ozguven, Eren Erman
Ozbay, Kaan
Iyer, Shrisan
Whytlaw, Ryan A G
Carnegie, Jon A

Pagination:

29p

Publication Date:

2015

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Maps; References (32) ; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Northeastern United States

Subject Areas:

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Security and Emergencies; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-3297

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 30 2014 1:06PM