The two-echelon island fuel distribution problem

Vahid Eghbal Akhlaghi and Ann Melissa Campbell

European Journal of Operational Research, 2022, vol. 302, issue 3, 999-1017

Abstract: After a natural disaster on an island, fuel demand often increases significantly, making it one of the highest priority relief items. FEMA has proposed a plan to use ships to transport fuel for delivery to dispensing sites. Even if the location of the fuel dispensing sites is determined by the location of population centers, there remain questions about how many ships to use, which ports should be visited by the ships, and what points of origin to use for these ships to minimize the maximum time a citizen must wait for access to fuel. We model this new problem with a two-echelon fuel distribution network, show how to make it computationally tractable, and provide a case study for Puerto Rico that reveals important insights.

Keywords: Humanitarian logistics; Intermodal transportation; Fuel distribution; Islands (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377221722000662
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ejores:v:302:y:2022:i:3:p:999-1017

DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2022.01.030

Access Statistics for this article

European Journal of Operational Research is currently edited by Roman Slowinski, Jesus Artalejo, Jean-Charles. Billaut, Robert Dyson and Lorenzo Peccati

More articles in European Journal of Operational Research from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().