An implementation of a decision model: A national and international relief operation comparison

Abstract

Recently natural disasters have emphasized the importance of emergency relief operation logistics for both international and national relief operations. Quick and adequate decision-making in humanitarian logistics is vital, but sometimes hard to achieve, so the logistics decision model under time constraints is necessary. This paper presents the logistics decision-making throughout the operational humanitarian life cycle of the French Red Cross to the Haiti earthquake 2010 and Thai Red Cross to the Nan flooding 2011. The two case scenarios are presented and implemented a decision model which is proposed in the previous study. The comparison of two relief operation is analyzed and discussed.