{"49719":{"#nid":"49719","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Atlanta plays pivotal relief role with quake victims: Logistics","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAtlanta Journal-Constitution\u003C\/em\u003E (January 24, 2010)\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs the world scrambles to help Haiti, businesses and organizations in Atlanta are concerning themselves with some key, if mundane, relief items, namely: buckets, underwear and biscuits. The logistical world of emergency relief \u2013 which has a large footprint in Atlanta \u2013 is being tested as in few other natural disasters. Desperately needed supplies of food, water and medicine are being slowed by torn roads, inadequate security and distribution bottlenecks. \u0022The general public doesn\u0027t realize how complicated logistics are in a disaster,\u0022 said Julie Swann, co-director of Georgia Tech\u0027s Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics. Sudden floods of supplies can worsen emergencies. \u0022It\u0027s not good for the system for everyone to send everything as fast as they can.\u0022 Atlanta, long a center for commerce and distribution, is now a center for relief, Swann said. \u0022Very few places have this critical mass of organizations.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERead entire article at: \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/search\/content\/printedition\/2010\/01\/24\/haiti01241.html\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.ajc.com\/search\/content\/printedition\/2010\/01\/24\/haiti01241.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAtlanta Journal-Constitution (January 24, 2010)\nAs the world scrambles to help Haiti, businesses and organizations in Atlanta are concerning themselves with some key, if mundane, relief items, namely: buckets, underwear and biscuits...The logistical world of emergency relief - which has a large footprint in Atlanta - is being tested as in few other natural disasters. Desperately needed supplies of food, water and medicine are being slowed by torn roads, inadequate security and distribution bottlenecks.. \u0022The general public doesn\u0027t realize how complicated logistics are in a disaster,\u0022 said Julie Swann, co-director of Georgia Tech\u0027s Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics. Sudden floods of supplies can worsen emergencies. \u0022It\u0027s not good for the system for everyone to send everything as fast as they can.\u0022..  .Atlanta, long a center for commerce and distribution, is now a center for relief, Swann said. \u0022Very few places have this critical mass of organizations.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Atlanta plays pivotal relief role with quake victims: Logistics"}],"uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2010-01-26 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:04:08","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-01-26T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-01-26T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1240","name":"humanitarian logistics"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"1237","name":"Julie Swann"},{"id":"167077","name":"scl"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}