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2016

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Dynamic casualty transportation problem

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The Casualty Transportation Of Ebola Outbreak In Liberia: A Simulation Study, Hyejin Cho Apr 2016

The Casualty Transportation Of Ebola Outbreak In Liberia: A Simulation Study, Hyejin Cho

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In this paper, we have solved the unique problem of casualty transportation problem under Ebola by developing dynamic policies for vehicle routing in order to provide practical decision support. The objective of the proposed model is to minimize the total transmission risk. We describe the problem with real- constraints and parameters based on the empirical data of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Liberia. The casualty transportation problem is a variant of Dynamic Pick-up and Delivery Problems (DPDP), in which a vehicle is dispatched to demand location in real time and it then transports the demands to the aimed area (destination). …