Review and prospect of the emergency resource coordination under unconventional emergencies

The coordination of emergency resources in the event of unconventional emergencies and large-scale disasters is of vital importance in emergency resource management. This paper discusses the main research content and the objective of resource coordination problem and to properly grasp the research trend, this study overviews and analyzes the research status of this field in detail through the identification of the resource coordination problem in literature that is mainly categorized into literature related to resource facility location problem, emergency resource allocation problem, and emergency resource scheduling problem. The formulation models are also summarized and the prospect for future research directions is finally addressed.