Urgency evaluation of emergency demand in emergency logistics operation based on FAHP

Abstract

This paper focused on urgency evaluation of emergency demand in emergency logistics operation. Based on researches on key problems in emergency demand of material in disaster relief operation, an urgency evaluation index system of emergency demand was discussed and analyzed with the idea of information matching between demand and supply. Given the uncertainty, subjectivity and ambiguity of human knowledge in the index system, a fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) was applied to accommodate the inherent uncertainty, and the urgency of emergency demand were calculated. Finally, a numerical example illustrating the application of this method to the urgency and ranking of emergency demand in logistic operation was given.