RAPID/Collaborative Research: Capacity Adjustment, Resilience and Information Sharing in a Network for Good (CARING)

这一快速反应研究(RAPID)项目将支持数据收集工作，以捕捉飓风佛罗伦萨对北卡罗来纳州中部和东部粮食银行(FBCENC)的后遗症。粮食银行运营着一个独特的供应链网络，以支持其服务区域内有饥饿需要的人。飓风等自然灾害扰乱了食品银行的正常运营，导致需求突然增加，破坏了当地供应来源，扰乱了正常的食品供应系统。在飓风佛罗伦萨期间，FBCENC的业务严重中断，包括两个分支机构在内的超过50%的服务网络受到风暴的影响。风暴过后，FBCENC需要立即对佛罗伦萨造成的破坏做出反应，同时保持满足动态饥饿需求的常规业务。这个快速的NSF项目将收集有关FBCENC在佛罗伦萨飓风后遇到的挑战的数据，以洞察非营利性食品配送组织如何准备、响应和恢复其网络中断。因此，这项科学研究贡献支持了NSF促进科学进步和增进我们国家福利的使命。在这种情况下，所带来的好处将是对灾后人道主义物流管理的改进，从而能够拯救生命，减少经济损失。这一快速项目将收集与粮食银行网络的准备、事件管理和飓风佛罗伦萨恢复有关的时间敏感的业务信息和数据。该项目的研究目标是：(1)研究其业务网络正在遭受自然灾害的粮食银行所作出的决定；(2)仔细审查受灾网络中人类组成部分(捐助者、粮食银行工作人员、机构所有者、客户)的反应；(3)说明灾害发生前、期间和之后对需求和供应的影响；(4)确定备灾和恢复的公平、效率和效益之间的最佳权衡；(5)区分影响粮食需求的与灾害有关的参数。该项目将促进研究组织特征和结构的差异如何影响粮食银行(和机构)抵御飓风等灾害影响的能力。该项目将根据从大规模网络中断事件中收集的现场数据，收集制定灾难准备和响应的智能建议所需的数据。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This Rapid Response Research (RAPID) project will support data collection efforts to capture the after-effects of Hurricane Florence on the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina (FBCENC). Food Banks operate a unique supply chain network to support people in hunger need in their service region. Natural disasters like hurricanes disrupt the normal operation of a food bank causing a sudden increase in demand, damaging sources of local supplies and upsetting the regular food delivery system. During Hurricane Florence, FBCENC operations were severely disrupted as more than 50 percent of their service network including two branch locations were affected by the storm. Immediately after the storm, FBCENC needed to respond to the disruption caused by Florence while keeping the regular business of satisfying dynamic hunger need. This RAPID NSF project will collect data on the challenges encountered by FBCENC after Hurricane Florence to provide insight for how nonprofit food distribution organizations can prepare, respond, and recover from disruptions to their network. This scientific research contribution thus supports NSF's mission to promote the progress of science and to advance our national welfare. In this case, the benefits will be insights to improve management of humanitarian logistics post disaster which can save lives and reduce economic losses. This RAPID project will collect time sensitive operational information and data related to a food bank network's preparation, incident management and recovery for Hurricane Florence. The research objectives of the project are to: (i) study the decisions taken by a food bank having its operational network undergoing a natural disaster; (ii) scrutinize the responses of the human components (donors, food bank personnel, agency owners, clients) in the disrupted network; (iii) characterize the impact on demand and supply before, during and after a disaster; (iv) identify the optimal trade-offs between equity, efficiency, and effectiveness for disaster preparation and recovery; and (v) distinguish the disaster-related parameters impacting food demand. The project will facilitate the study of how the differences in organizational characteristics and structure affect the ability of food banks (and agencies) to be resilient to the impact of disasters like hurricanes. This project will collect the data necessary to develop smart recommendations for disaster preparedness and response based on field data collected from a large-scale network disruptive event.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.