A fuzzy integer programming model to locate temporary medical facilities as part of pre-disaster management
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Tarih
2019
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IGI Global
Erişim Hakkı
info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
Özet
The number and the scale of natural disasters have drastically increased over the last decades. One of the most vital stages of disaster preparedness is disaster response planning, and it plays an important role in limiting material and immaterial consequences, such as those caused by large scale earthquakes. In order to minimize human suffering and death, the aim of establishing a well-designed humanitarian relief chain must be to provide medicine, water, shelter, emergency food and supplies to the affected areas. From a holistic perspective, providing timely first aid and rapid transfer of injured victims to a medical facility is one of the most essential component of such chain. Thus, the location of first aid hospitals must be determined following a careful thought and planning process. This study presents a fuzzy integer programming model to determine the best location of the temporary hospitals which are expected to support extant state hospitals after a major earthquake. This study applies the proposed fuzzy model to the Üsküdar province of Istanbul and identifies optimum number and locations of field hospitals for a severe earthquake scenario.
Açıklama
Anahtar Kelimeler
Disaster Management, Fuzzy Integer Programming, Verdegay Method, Location Allocation Problem
Kaynak
International Journal of Operations Research and Information Systems
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Cilt
10
Sayı
1
Künye
Kuşakcı, A. O. ve Ayvaz, B. (2019). A fuzzy integer programming model to locate temporary medical facilities as part of pre-disaster management. International Journal of Operations Research and Information Systems, 10(1).
