On the appropriate objective function for post-disaster humanitarian logistics models

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外文摘要：The paper argues that welfare economic principles must be incorporated in post-disaster humanitarian logistic models to ensure delivery strategies that lead to the greatest good for the greatest number of people. The paper's analyses suggest the use of social costs-the summation of logistic and deprivation costs-as the preferred objective function for post-disaster humanitarian logistic models. The paper defines deprivation cost as the economic valuation of the human suffering associated with a lack of access to a good or service. The use of deprivation costs is evaluated with a review of the philosophy and the economic literature to identify proper foundations for their estimation; a comparison of different proxy approaches to consider human suffering (e.g., minimization of penalties or weight factors, penalties for late deliveries, equity constraints, unmet demands) and their implications; and an analysis of the impacts of errors in estimation. In its final sections, the paper conducts numerical experiments to illustrate the comparative impacts of using the proxy approaches suggested in the literature, and concludes with a discussion of key findings.

外文关键词：

Humanitarian logisticsDeprivation costHuman sufferingOptimization

作者：

Jose Holguin-Veras、Noel Perez、Miguel Jailer、Luk N. Van Wassenhove、Felipe Aros-Vera

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作者单位：

William H. Hart Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA,Director of the Center for Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Environment Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA

Academic Director Humanitarian Research Group, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France

出版年：

2013

DOI：

10.1016/j.jom.2013.06.002

Journal of operations management

ISSN：0272-6963

年,卷(期)：2013.31(5)

被引量213
参考文献量67