Prepositioning of assets and supplies in disaster operations management: Review and research gap identification

Prepositioning of assets and supplies prior to a disaster strike accelerates the response activities as it reduces the supply chain burden associated with humanitarian relief items. Unlike prior survey papers on pre-disaster and post-disaster humanitarian logistics, our paper has a specific focus on prepositioning of assets and supplies in the domain of natural disasters. The first aim of our paper is to review the main Operations Research and...