Vehicle Routing Optimization for Humanitarian Supply Chain: A Systematic Review of Approaches and Solutions
Corona pandemic has revealed that the uncertainty associated with disaster management has rippling effects, resulting in severe human suffering across the globe. The severity and complexity of the relief operations increase the authority’s response time. The Humanitarian Supply Chain (HSC...
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| author | Ayesha Maroof Qazi Salman Khalid Mahawish Mahmood Khawar Naeem Shahid Maqsood Sikandar Bilal Khattak Berk Ayvaz |
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| description | Corona pandemic has revealed that the uncertainty associated with disaster management has rippling effects, resulting in severe human suffering across the globe. The severity and complexity of the relief operations increase the authority’s response time. The Humanitarian Supply Chain (HSC) can be helpful and is one of the critical branches of Operations Research. This paper presents a systematic literature review using PRISMA in the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) for HSC papers published in SCOPUS and Web of Science databases during the last two decades. It aims to classify and review the literature on VRP models in HSC using fifteen different categorizations. This paper extensively describes objective functions and solution methodologies, including heuristics, commercial and exact solvers, uncertainties, resource types, and vehicle types. Several research questions are framed using the PICOS (Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcomes, and Study) tool. Future research directions are accordingly proposed based on objective functions, uncertain approaches, heuristic approaches, vehicle types, resource types, model dimensions, sustainability, and scheduling. The results of this study show that there is still plenty of room for research and development in VRP for HSC. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d022c28ec6ca4ccca21be155b2e725942023-11-18T00:01:15ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362023-01-011112715712717510.1109/ACCESS.2023.333106210311589Vehicle Routing Optimization for Humanitarian Supply Chain: A Systematic Review of Approaches and SolutionsAyesha Maroof0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2966-6060Qazi Salman Khalid1Mahawish Mahmood2Khawar Naeem3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5316-8101Shahid Maqsood4https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8355-1593Sikandar Bilal Khattak5https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0866-0682Berk Ayvaz6https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8098-3611Department of Industrial Engineering, Istanbul Ticaret University, Istanbul, TurkeyDepartment of Industrial Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, PakistanDepartment of Industrial Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, PakistanCollege of Science and Engineering, Qatar Foundation, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Doha, QatarDepartment of Industrial Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, PakistanDepartment of Industrial Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, PakistanDepartment of Industrial Engineering, Istanbul Ticaret University, Istanbul, TurkeyCorona pandemic has revealed that the uncertainty associated with disaster management has rippling effects, resulting in severe human suffering across the globe. The severity and complexity of the relief operations increase the authority’s response time. The Humanitarian Supply Chain (HSC) can be helpful and is one of the critical branches of Operations Research. This paper presents a systematic literature review using PRISMA in the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) for HSC papers published in SCOPUS and Web of Science databases during the last two decades. It aims to classify and review the literature on VRP models in HSC using fifteen different categorizations. This paper extensively describes objective functions and solution methodologies, including heuristics, commercial and exact solvers, uncertainties, resource types, and vehicle types. Several research questions are framed using the PICOS (Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcomes, and Study) tool. Future research directions are accordingly proposed based on objective functions, uncertain approaches, heuristic approaches, vehicle types, resource types, model dimensions, sustainability, and scheduling. The results of this study show that there is still plenty of room for research and development in VRP for HSC.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10311589/Disaster managementhumanitarian logisticsHSCrelief operationsVRP |
| spellingShingle | Ayesha Maroof Qazi Salman Khalid Mahawish Mahmood Khawar Naeem Shahid Maqsood Sikandar Bilal Khattak Berk Ayvaz Vehicle Routing Optimization for Humanitarian Supply Chain: A Systematic Review of Approaches and Solutions IEEE Access Disaster management humanitarian logistics HSC relief operations VRP |
| title | Vehicle Routing Optimization for Humanitarian Supply Chain: A Systematic Review of Approaches and Solutions |
| title_full | Vehicle Routing Optimization for Humanitarian Supply Chain: A Systematic Review of Approaches and Solutions |
| title_fullStr | Vehicle Routing Optimization for Humanitarian Supply Chain: A Systematic Review of Approaches and Solutions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Vehicle Routing Optimization for Humanitarian Supply Chain: A Systematic Review of Approaches and Solutions |
| title_short | Vehicle Routing Optimization for Humanitarian Supply Chain: A Systematic Review of Approaches and Solutions |
| title_sort | vehicle routing optimization for humanitarian supply chain a systematic review of approaches and solutions |
| topic | Disaster management humanitarian logistics HSC relief operations VRP |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10311589/ |
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