Purpose – The paper aims to describe the design and manufacturing process of a tele‐operative urban search and rescue tracked robot and discuss the advantages of a proposed novel track arrangement and other additional mechanisms, which help the robot to gain high manoeuverability on rough...

Effective recovery and restoration of infrastructure systems play a crucial role in recovery after disasters. This issue is particularly critical when delivering time-sensitive services and commodities. Damage to infrastructure can lead to disruptions and diminished capacity to respond to...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to propose and compare the performance of the "two" robust mathematical models, the Robust Integer Facility Location (RIFL) and the Robust Continuous Facility Location (RCFL) models, to solve the emergency response facility and transportation problems in...