Abstract:
Disaster management can be considered as a critical measurement of the ability of
communities to effectively protect their people and infrastructure and rapidly recover from the disaster.
In the Disaster management context, managing Humanitarian logistics plays a critical role. Where
Humanitarian logistics is dealing with planning, implementing and controlling the efficient, cost
effective flow of goods, materials and information from the point of origin to the point of consumption
with the intention of alleviating the suffering of victims. But still most of humanitarian aids
organizations lack the resources to analyze disaster related data and effectively manage logistics and
rescue victims in a disaster. For any kind of disaster relief operations last mile is considered to be very
critical place in humanitarian logistics management because it is the place where humanitarian aids
distribution to victims is happening. When considering about global disaster context, floods can be
considered as one of the most common and frequent natural disaster world population are faced.
Therefore objective of this study is to analyze the applicability of last mile humanitarian logistics
optimization for natural flood disasters and provide future research directions for last mile humanitarian
logistics management operations in order to provide better service to victims of flood disasters and
improve the performance of last mile operations.
