MIT Humanitarian Speaker Series: Özlem Ergun, Georgia Tech
Mar 14, 2012 at 7:45AM - Mar 14, 2012 at 9:00AMMIT Room E62-550
MIT Humanitarian Speaker Series
A Case Study on Post-disaster Debris Operations and Solving Multi-period Network Capacity Expansion Problems
Özlem Ergun
Georgia Institute of Technology
Abstract
Debris is the waste generated by hazardous events such as a natural disaster or a terrorist attack. Post-disaster debris collection operations are in general not planned in advance and are done in an ad-hoc way after an event. Issues in tactical and operational planning include clearing quickly, widely, and in ways that is good for the environment and health. Debris impacts the logistics of humanitarian relief and debris generated...