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A Location-Allocation-Vehicle Routing Model for Humanitarian Blood Supply Chain in Aftermath of Earthquake under IER Uncertainty Considering Quality Concepts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2025

Shiva Moslemi ,
Abolfazl Mirzazadeh Open the ORCID record for Abolfazl Mirzazadeh [Opens in a new window]  and
Mohammad Mohammadi
Shiva Moslemi
Affiliation:
Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
Abolfazl Mirzazadeh*
Affiliation:
Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
Mohammad Mohammadi
Affiliation:
Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
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Corresponding author: Abolfazl Mirzazadeh; Email: mirzazadeh@khu.ac.ir
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Abstract

This paper presents a Location-Allocation-Vehicle Routing Problem to design a humanitarian blood supply chain in response to earthquakes, incorporating quality concepts, reliability, and horizontal communication. The aim of the model is to minimize the total cost, minimize maximum shortage of demand points with high priority and low route value, and maximize the satisfaction of customers, including donors, hospitals, and blood transfusion centers. In order to deal with considerations of real world, the structure of the blood supply chain and all the intricacies incorporated in the model are defined based on the network and challenges of Blood Transfusion Center of Tehran. In addition, the blood demand and reliability of routes and facilities are considered uncertain, and the Interval Evidential Reasoning (IER) approach is used to handle the uncertainty. Since the problem is NP-hard, NSGAII and MOPSO algorithms have been applied to solve it. To demonstrate the efficiency of the model and compare the algorithms, several numerical examples in different sizes are designed. Finally, the most favorable algorithm is chosen for each size using the TOPSIS method.

Keywords

location-allocationvehicle routing problemhumanitarian blood supply chainqualityreliability of routes and facilitieshorizontal communication

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Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 19 , 2025 , e122
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc.

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