Table I

Application of operations research in disaster management

ApplicationTechnique
Authors (Year)LocationFacility locationInventory managementEmergency distributionPre-disaster reinforcementEmergency network designMulti-objectiveStochasticRobustMaximal coveringBi-levelMixed integer Linear programingNon-linearExact solution methodMeta-heuristics solution methodHeuristics solution method
Tzeng et al. (2007) Taiwan*    *         
Balcik and Beamon (2008) Generated examples (world)*       *      
Jeong et al. (2014) South Carolina, USA*         *    
Xu et al. (2016) Lushan, China*        *   * 
Tayal and Singh (2017) Generated examples*    **      * 
Ozbay and Ozguven (2007) Generated examples *    *        
Kaur and Singh (2016) Generated examples *        **   
Özdamar et al. (2004) Small test instances  *       * *  
Bozorgi-Amiri et al. (2013) Iran  *  ***       
Kaur and Singh (2016) Generated examples  *       **   
Mohamadi and Yaghoubi (2017) Iran  *  *   *     
Üster and Dalal (2017) USA, coastal Texas  *  *      *  
Rahmani et al. (2018) Tehran, Iran  *   **    *  
Torabi et al. (2018) Iran  *   *      * 
Hasanzadeh and Bashiri (2016) Numerical examples* *     *   *  
Elluru et al. (2017) Numerical examples* *            
Sabouhi et al. (2018) Tehran, Iran  *       *  * 
Safaei et al. (2018) Numerical example (a case of flood disaster)  *    * *    *
Asakura et al. (2003) Numerical examples   *  *        
Chootinan et al. (2005) Example network   *  *  *   **
Sanchez-Silva et al. (2005) Colombia   *  *        
Peeta et al. (2010) Istanbul   *  *        
Edrissi et al. (2013) Example network   *          *
Du and Peeta (2014) Example network (Sioux Falls)   *  *  *    *
Faturechi and Miller-Hooks (2014) Example network (Double-stack container network)   *  *    **  
Edrissi et al. (2015) Tehran, Iran   *          *
Viswanath and Peeta (2003) Southwestern Indiana, USA    **  *   *  
Shariat Mohaymany and Pirnazar (2007) Example network    **  *   *  
Nikoo et al. (2018) Tehran, Iran    **      *  

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