Age-based transshipment strategy for overstock blood in emergency relief

作者：Wang Keming^*; Ma Zujun; Zhou Yufeng

来源：Advances in Information Sciences and Service Sciences, 2012, 4(18): 633-642.

DOI：10.4156/AISS.vol4.issue18.78

• Age-based
• Blood bank
• Emergency relief
• Freshness
• Perishable
• Saturation coefficient
• Simulation example
• Transport costs
• Transshipment models
• Transshipment problem

To cope with the sharp rise in demand for blood in emergency, the blood bank tends to increase the stock overly and it may cause the blood overstock. Therefore, it';s necessary to transship the excessive stock to other blood banks to reduce the potential outdating. By analyzing the stock status, the age based properties of transshipping and receiving are deduced, and a transshipment model is set up to minimize transport costs. The differences of decision effectiveness for two selection policies are studied here, and the paper also reveals the support reliability coefficient, demand saturation coefficient and decision-making time';s impacts on transshipment decision-making through simulation examples, so provide a tutorial for solving blood transshipment problem.

• 出版日期2012
• 单位西南交通大学