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7th International Conference on Logistics and Supply Chain Management, LSCM 2020, Virtual, Online, 23 - 24 December 2020, vol.1458 CCIS, pp.341-361, (Full Text)
The most important aim in humanity's relief problems is the minimization of response time and reducing the rate of casualty in disasters. If paths are inappropriate for transferring relief items to the disaster areas, response time and the number of casualties will be increased. Therefore, airborne vehicles like helicopters are used in this study to transfer equipment to the disaster areas to build a “Field hospital.” Each path is assigned a weight for illustrating priority and humanitarian operation starts its operation from the highest priority. What the instances’ evaluations conclude is that most of the injured individuals are rescued by this strategy because the humanitarian operation is independent of paths’ situation, and humanitarian operation time will be reduced. We wish to present the innovation of airborne and ground vehicles by reviewing demand priority in the disaster literature to show its efficiency in humanitarian operations. This study shows that the airborne vehicle strategy is cost-efficient and reduces the response time to extend possible; thus, the casualty rate could be decreased.