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Solving a new bi-objective model for relief logistics in a humanitarian supply chain by bi-objective meta-heuristic algorithms

Document Type : Research Article

Authors
H. Madani Saatchi 1
A. Arshadi Khamseh 1
R. Tavakkoli-Moghaddam 2
1 Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
2 - School of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. - Arts et Metiers ParisTech, LCFC, Metz, France.
10.24200/sci.2020.53823.3438
Abstract
One of the most important factors in a humanitarian supply chain during a disaster is to respond quickly and efficiently. Delivering emergency commodities to the affected areas is critical in reducing consequences. Moreover, transferring the injured people through the fastest and the shortest time by using all available resources is vitally important. To this aim, a multi-echelon, multi-objective forward and backward relief network is proposed that considers the location of hospitals, local warehouses and hybrid centers, which are hospital-warehouse centers in the pre-disaster phase. In the post-disaster phase, the routing of relief commodities is considered in the forward route. In the backward route some vehicles that can transfer injured people after delivering commodities; hybrid transportation facilities; will take injured to hospitals and hybrid centers. According to the degree of hardness, a hybrid non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA-II) with simulated annealing (SA) and variable neighborhood search (VNS) algorithms is proposed to solve the given problems. The results of this hybrid algorithm are compared with NSGA-II and multi-objective SA-VNS using five metrics (i.e., a number of Pareto, mean ideal distance, spacing, diversity and time) in order to emphasize that the proposed hybrid algorithm outperforms the two foregoing algorithms
Keywords
Facility location
Relief logistics
Vehicle routing
Multi-objective optimization: Forward-backward supply chain

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Scientia Iranica
Volume 28, Issue 5
Transactions on Industrial Engineering (E)
September and October 2021
Pages 2948-2971

  • Receive Date 19 June 2019
  • Revise Date 12 October 2019
  • Accept Date 11 January 2020