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Article Citation - WoS: 17Citation - Scopus: 19Determination of Equivalent Warehouses in Humanitarian Logistics by Reallocation of Multiple Item Type Inventories(Elsevier, 2021) Ertem, Mustafa Alp; Demirbas, SefikaPrepositioning freight containers for storage of relief supplies can be considered an alternative to warehousing with shelves. Recently, 25 container warehouses are located in different cities in Turkey to deliver relief supplies to beneficiaries quickly. We take this existing situation as given and investigate if this investment could be utilised better. The available inventory (i.e., tents, beds, blankets) in these container warehouses is currently not used efficiently. Some warehouses store one type of item and none from other types. Therefore, several warehouses must be activated during a response operation to fully satisfy the beneficiaries' needs for each relief item type. We aim to investigate the benefits of operating equivalent (i.e., a proper inventory level from each relief item type) warehouses while reallocating a total available inventory for better coordination. A locationreallocation type of mathematical model is tested with real-life data from past earthquakes. Three to eight container warehouses are recommended to be converted to an equivalent type. The results indicate potential savings for the proposed model, and this potential is more visible in large-scale demand instances than in small ones.Article Citation - WoS: 30Citation - Scopus: 38Intermodal Humanitarian Logistics Model Based on Maritime Transportation in Istanbul(Springer, 2016) Aygunes, Haluk; Ozkapici, Dilsu Binnaz; Ertem, Mustafa AlpIstanbul, the economic capital and most populated city of Turkey, is highly prone to earthquakes. When an earthquake occurs, required relief items are expected to be supplied from national and international sources. To alleviate human suffering following an earthquake, in this paper, we propose an intermodal relief item distribution model for Istanbul involving sea and land transportation with identified road vulnerabilities. The proposed mathematical model utilizes the seaports of Istanbul for maritime transportation and allows for the transportation of relief item between Istanbul's European and Anatolian sides. We also use the seabasing concept for providing supplies to demand areas. The use of maritime transportation and seabasing provides flexibility for humanitarian logistical activities and the proposed model provides an effective and reliable disaster relief system for Istanbul as well as other disaster-prone cities with significant maritime transportation components.