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Humanitarian Logistics

Assistant Prof. Dr. Dilek Günneç conducts several research projects on the quantitative decision-making models for migration or post-disaster debris removal. The two TÜBITAK projects that she currently works on are on these issues. In the first project “Logistics Optimization in Mobile Aid Provision to En Route Refugees”, a new multi-period problem with mobile demand and service continuity is introduced. The goal is to plan the delivery of relief aid to en-route refugees through mobile facilities. As part of the project, she also works on an Agent-Based simulation model where she uses real data to predict refugee paths. In the second project “Optimization of Post-Earthquake Road Network Debris Removal Activities with Dynamic Containing Trees”, the goal is to increase the level of accessibility to all nodes of a transportation network by planning debris removal activities. In both projects, the aim is to improve the decisions of humanitarian aid organizations with a systematic and scientific method and to facilitate their decision-making processes with solution methods developed in a way that can be used in practice without requiring complex solvers or optimization tools.