Oksuz, Mehmet Kursat; Satoglu, Sule Itir

Devastating effects of disasters and global crises on people increases the importance of humanitarian logistics studies for pre and post-disaster stages. Location planning of Temporary Medical Centers/field hospitals is one of the most important problems for disaster response. We aimed to determine the location and number of temporary medical centers in case of disasters by considering the locations of the existing hospitals, casualty classification (triage), capacities of medical centers and possibilities of damage to the roads and hospitals. Besides, we aimed to assign different casualty classes to these medical centers for emergency medical response by considering the distances between disaster areas and medical centers. For this purpose, a two-stage stochastic programming model was developed. The proposed model finds an optimal TMC location solution while minimizing the total setup cost of the TMCs and the expected total transportation cost by considering casualty types, demand, possibilities of damage to the roads and hospitals, and distance between the disaster areas and the medical cente2rs. In the model, α-reliability constraints for the expected number of unassigned casualties were also used. Besides, the model was reformulated without triage, in order to understand the impact of casualty classification on the solution of the problem. We performed a real case study for the district of Kartal expected to be widely damaged in the possible Istanbul earthquake, and a sensitivity analysis was made. The analysis of the results offer some managerial insights associated with the number of temporary medical centers’ needed, their locations, and additional hospital capacity requirements.

Polater, Abdussamet

The purpose of this review is to present the literature base of airport disaster management (ADM) for non-aviation related events. This study systematically reviews the recent literature to report ADM efforts, identify gaps for future research and determine related research questions to be addressed. In this study, Systematic Literature Review (SLR) approach proposed by Denyer and Tranfield (2009) was used. Transparency, audibility and replicability are the main objectives of this SLR. The studies which were published within the period 2007 and 2017 were reviewed. The papers were screened in the academic databases such as Wiley, Emeraldinsight, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink, Google scholar and Taylor & Francis. However, papers which are related to the research aim were only found in Emeraldinsight, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink and Google Scholar. Twenty-three papers were analyzed including peer reviewed articles and theses. As a result of the review, it was determined that the previous studies mainly focused on five research topics such as stakeholder collaboration, scheduling problems, medical preparedness, infrastructure planning and corporate social responsibility. The study is considered as original in the sense that it is the first systematic research that investigates disaster management for non-aviation related conditions in airport setting.